Gen Digital, Inc. v. Sycomp, a Technology Company, Inc.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 7 GEN DIGITAL, INC., Case No. 24-cv-04106-CRB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS TO

v.

DISMISS COUNTS TWO, THREE,

FOUR, AND FIVE OF FIRST

SYCOMP, A TECHNOLOGY AMENDED COMPLAINT COMPANY, INC., et al., 12 Defendants. 13 Plaintiff Gen Digital (formerly known as Symantec) sues Defendants Sycomp, a Technology Company and North American Systems International for breach of contract. Plaintiff alleges that it entered into separate written agreements with each Defendant under which Defendants would provide IT-related services and promised to indemnify Plaintiff in the event that those services infringed on any third party’s intellectual property rights. Plaintiff, now on the hook for copyright infringement, seeks indemnification from Defendants under several alternate theories: breach of its written contracts with Sycomp (count one) and NASI (count three), breach of its written contracts as orally amended with Sycomp (count two) and NASI (count four),…