Cyber crimes and information technology-related offences are fast spreading to companies whose primary products are their exclusive intellectual inputs.
Cyber crimes and information technology-related offences are fast spreading to companies whose primary products are their exclusive intellectual inputs. Law firm Titus & Co recently won a legal battle against its four lawyer associates who parted ways with the company and took with them vital data from its secured computers.
Facing charges under the Information Technology Act, these lawyers suffered another jolt when the high court rejected their pleas claiming ownership on the stolen data. The Titus verdict comes within days of the Supreme Court rejecting a well-contested PIL that sought quashing of allotment of land to industry in Madhya Pradesh on the ground that it was reserved forest area. Judges sifted satellite data and also compared it with the high-pixel imaging provided by the petitioner. An IT expert from Hyderabad also rendered his expertise in simplifying the differences between the conflicting claims. Judges rejected the PIL holding that the land didn’t belong to the forests.
Now, Maharashtra police may render its assistance to a team of lawyers appointed by the Delhi High Court to help it in ascertaining the veracity of Petro IT Ltd’s claim that a programme (Pipe/Trak/IT) developed as the oil pipeline construction management system over a number of years had been clandestinely used by defendant Mohan Pathak and others in two major concerns in Mumbai and Pune.
Notwithstanding the defendant’s strong rebuttal of the allegation, two court commissioners would visit Essar Constructions Limited at Mahalaxmi, Mumbai and Ivani Networks Pvt. Ltd at Dibwewadi, Pune. The contentious issue is whether PIPE/TRAK/IT, which was given to the defendants by the work order contracts in July and October, 2005 for the development of Anklav- Dhuvaran Pipeline Project (ADPL) and Anand-Rajkot Pipeline Project (ARPL), has also been used at Mumbai and Pune.
HC has already restrained the defendants and their agents and officers from using, selling, offering for sale, distributing or releasing any version of the software. Violation could amount to infringing the copyright law. Whether this case is only related to the copyright law or will draw from the Titus & Co verdict will be unfolded in a few days from now.
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