Splunk, Cribl Fail to Undo $1 Software Copyright Trial Verdict

San Francisco software firms Splunk Inc. and Cribl Inc. failed to convince a federal court to give them post-trial wins in a long-running copyright battle over software interoperability.

Judge William Alsup of the US District Court for the Northern District of California in a ruling Wednesday upheld a jury’s verdict from April 2024 that found Cribl had unlawfully copied data analysis software owned by Splunk and awarded Splunk a nominal $1 in damages.

Both parties filed post-trial motions seeking more favorable judgments, but Alsup said they had failed to bring up these arguments “at the time it mattered at trial.” ...