By Patrick Barnard
Senior Web Editor

A federal court in Utah has awarded HD conferencing company ClearOne with approximately $9.7 million in damages as part of its trade secret misappropriation case against WideBand (News - Alert) Solutions Inc. and Biamp Systems Corporation.

The ruling names three of WideBand's principals, Dr. Jun Yang (the former ClearOne employee), Andrew Chiang (previously affiliated with an entity that sold certain assets to ClearOne), and Lonny Bowers. Also named is a company owned primarily by Yang called Versatile DSP, Inc.

The court ruled that Biamp also infringed on ClearOne's patented technology because it "deliberately ignored numerous warning signs suggesting that the AEC technology offered by WideBand was not WideBand's to sell."

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