Forensic Analysis Provides Critical Insight in Intellectual Property Case
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septembre 12, 2025
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When an intellectual property dispute between two companies in the aviation industry escalated to litigation and potential criminal charges, the ensuing litigation required the companies to conduct an extensive review to determine whether intellectual property was misappropriated. FTI Technology was engaged to provide expedited forensic analysis and emerging data sources expertise to support evidence discovery for litigation.
Our Impact
- The CEO’s assertions that the company and a group of implicated engineers had not stolen or meaningfully used any of the competitor’s IP were validated by a declaration of findings prepared by FTI Technology, drawing on exhaustive analysis of devices and cloud sources, including Google Workspace, Slack and Bitbucket.
- The processes used by all parties across each phase of the forensic analysis and e-discovery efforts were defensibly verified and testified to via depositions and court filings.
- FTI Technology provided expert testimony in court, conveying key facts and supporting evidence, which resulted in a last-minute settlement agreement in favor of the client.
Our Role
- FTI Technology delivered highly specialized technical skill, investigative experience and a forensically sound exercise to support the client with reassuring its stakeholders and responding to the litigation. The team performed a forensic analysis of 80 devices and cloud-based sources to develop a report for the client within a month.
- Our digital forensics and emerging data sources experts conducted interviews with employees and key custodians and consulted with counsel and senior leadership to help guide the investigation and the development of a response plan.
- The team uncovered additional data sources necessary for inclusion in the scope of analysis to completely and defensibly disprove the allegations against the client.
- Our experts supported the client over the course of two years to advise on search methodologies and findings, verify the defensibility of the processes used across each phase of the forensic analysis and e-discovery efforts by all parties, and testify to the results via depositions and court filings.
Date
septembre 12, 2025
Contacts
Senior Managing Director, Head of Digital Forensics & Investigations
Senior Managing Director
Managing Director