Splunk Jury Awards $1 for Software Copyright Win Over Cribl (1)

Software firm Splunk Inc. won its infringement case against startup competitor Cribl Inc. for copying enterprise data analysis software.

But the San Francisco jury on Monday returned only $1 in damages for copyright infringement and breach of license.

Splunk sought $154.9 million from Cribl, which was founded by former Splunk employees. The company, which was purchased by Cisco Systems Inc. in 2023, sued Cribl for violating software contracts and for copyright and patent infringement in 2022.

It alleged in its complaint filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California that its ex-employees unlawfully took copyrighted and ...