CrowdStrike Defeats Texas Trade Secrets Case Tied to 2024 Outage

CrowdStrike Inc. lacks sufficient ties to Texas to be sued there in an intellectual property dispute that surfaced after its global outage in July 2024, the Texas Business Court said.

Although the cybersecurity giant employs much of its workforce from an office tower in Austin, it’s principal place of business is in Sunnyvale, Calif., Judge Melissa Andrews said in a written opinion.

The ruling sides against GoSecure Inc., a California startup that sued CrowdStrike in the Golden State before repackaging the claims in Texas last year.

“While CrowdStrike’s evidence is less than perfect in several respects, it does tend to ...