Valeo employee acted on his own accord

Moniruzzaman provided affidavits stating that he never shared Valeo’s code or documents with other Nvidia employees, the court filing said, except for an accidental screen share during a call with Valeo that lasted less than five minutes.

“Affidavits Moniruzzaman submitted to the German court establish that [he] acted on his own, informed no one at Nvidia of his actions, and never shared Valeo’s alleged trade secrets with Nvidia,” the filing read. “The Nvidia employees who worked with Moniruzzaman similarly declared that they never knew of, much less used, any of Valeo’s alleged trade secrets.”

Nvidia accused Valeo of pressing unfounded and false accusations in Germany that Nvidia had actively sought Valeo code and used it to develop its products.

Valeo petitioned a German Court to appoint an independent expert to inspect Nvidia’s code base for any Valeo code, and after extensive investigations, the expert found no evidence of Valeo code in Nvidia’s code, the filing said.

The German court further awarded Nvidia costs. Nvidia also said it removed all code contributed by Moniruzzaman during his tenure.

Valeo had ineffective data protection mechanisms

Even though Nvidia denies that Valeo’s code had ever touched its systems, it did point out that the company’s efforts to protect its alleged trade secrets were “ineffective and unreasonable.”