Crowell Secures $23.3 Million Jury Verdict for C3.ai in Major Trade Secret Case

Washington - May 20, 2026: Crowell & Moring achieved a decisive victory for leading Enterprise AI application software company C3.ai, obtaining a $23.3 million jury verdict following a seven-day trial in Wilmington, Delaware. The jury unanimously found Cummins liable for trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract in a suit brought by C3.ai more than two and a half years ago.

C3.ai brought the suit after it discovered that Cummins had misappropriated its proprietary enterprise AI technology following Cummins' access to that technology under a license agreement. C3 told the jury that "Cummins, behind C3's back, ran a secret scheme across two continents to reverse engineer the C3 fuel economy optimization AI technology application by studying our software code and then replicating C3's technology at Cummins' offices in India.".

The unanimous verdicts on trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract decisively justify C3.ai's position and reflect the company's commitment to protecting the industry-leading technology at the heart of its enterprise AI platform.

Following the announcement of the verdicts, Thomas M. Siebel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of C3.ai said, "we placed our faith in the United States justice system, and the justice system worked. The jurors heard the evidence, applied the law, and unanimously concluded that Cummins stole C3.ai's intellectual property."

The Crowell & Moring team representing C3.ai was led by partners Mark Klapow, Joanna Forster, Mark Supko, Keith Harrison, counsels Joachim Steinberg and Hefeng Su, associates Elissa Tanenbaum, Anthony Sciuto, trial specialist Shana Harris, senior paralegal Rayline Petitt, and legal secretary Deborah Cook.

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