On May 3, 2019, the Santa Clara County Superior Court issued a final judgment in favor of ASML Holding N.V., and awarded the Netherlands-based chipmaking company $845 million in the trade secret misappropriation case against hardware and software design firm XTAL, Inc.
The ruling follows a November 2018 jury verdict which awarded ASML punitive damages after the theft of ASML’s proprietary algorithms and source code.