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Article: Guidance Software, Inc. Proves the Value of Computer Forensics in $300 Million Trade Secret/Patent Dispute Win; Defendants agree to sell their company and pay $61 million.
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- December 8, 2004
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PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- For as long as programmers have been writing software, other programmers have been trying to disguise the origins of stolen source code. In one current Silicon Valley trade secret and patent dispute, the accused parties went so far as to use "disk wiping" technology in an attempt to cover up evidence of source code theft. However, Guidance Software Inc., the maker of EnCase(R) software, the world's leading computer forensic software, used state-of-the-art technology to ferret out what the accused company thought it had covered up. These discoveries led directly to a crucial Court ruling establishing that the defendant ...