Dow Chemical Hit With Lawsuit Over Industrial Control Software

Nov. 7, 2022, 9:56 PM UTC

Dow Chemical Co. created its own industrial control software by unlawfully taking trade secrets and copyrighted software from ControlSoft Inc., a lawsuit filed Monday in Ohio federal court alleged.

ControlSoft, which sells software called MANTRA, said it worked with Dow for close to 20 years on developing customized software for Dow’s chemical plants before the company rolled out its own manufacturing control software called Syrinx.

“Dow copied substantial portions of the software architecture and design of MANTRA in creating Syrinx, and otherwise improperly used ControlSoft’s confidential information to develop Syrinx,” according to the complaint filed in the US District Court ...

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