"EDO unfairly accessed iSpot's proprietary data, replicated it and passed it off to clients as its own original work. They "tricked" iSpot into signing the then-fledgling company as a client and then spent three-and-a-half years modeling its business and products on iSpot's offerings, the suit said. "Unbeknownst to iSpot - and in blatant breach of its promises and representations - EDO was developing its own competing products and TV monitoring and analytics service while an iSpot customer, and was using iSpot's intellectual property, data, and designs to do so," lawyers for iSpot later asserted in an amended complaint in 2023."
"The company must pay $18.3 million in damages to iSpot, a rival whose data was improperly obtained and then marketed to clients under EDO's banner, the jury determined. The verdict was delivered Thursday in U.S. Court for the Central District of California in L.A. EDO's lawyers are planning to appeal the decision."
""Sadly, in this industry, when companies can't innovate, they litigate," EDO said in a statement provided to Deadline. "We see this for what it is - iSpot's desperate attempt to slow down a smaller, smarter competitor and distract us from doing what we do best, delivering superior results for our clients.""
A federal jury in the U.S. Court for the Central District of California found EDO liable for breach of contract and awarded iSpot $18.3 million in damages. iSpot alleged that EDO unfairly accessed, replicated and marketed iSpot's proprietary data, tricking iSpot into becoming a client and then modeling EDO's products and services on iSpot's offerings for years. iSpot's amended complaint asserted that EDO developed competing TV monitoring and analytics products while an iSpot customer and used iSpot's intellectual property, data and designs. EDO said it will appeal and characterized the suit as competitive litigation. Edward Norton co-founded EDO in 2015 and serves as chairman; Norton was not personally named in the lawsuit or called to testify.
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