Cribl Litigation Update
On October 5, 2022, Splunk filed an intellectual property and unfair competition complaint against Cribl for, among other things, misappropriating and misusing Splunk source code and confidential technical and business documents, as well as willfully infringing other Splunk intellectual property. Yesterday, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California decided in favor of Splunk, upholding our claim that Cribl willfully infringed our copyright in Splunk Enterprise and breached the licensing agreement that governs use of this software.
Splunk thanks the jurors and the court for their time and attention to this matter. We are pleased with the verdict that the jury reached, which recognizes Cribl’s willful and unlawful actions. We look forward to taking the steps necessary to hold Cribl accountable and protect our software and community, including seeking injunctive relief to prohibit further copyright infringement and breach of contract by Cribl. We continue to believe strongly in the merits of our case and the facts surrounding it. In our opinion, Cribl’s actions were egregious and worthy of the legal recourse Splunk pursued, having created a harmful situation for our customers and the software industry at large.
Splunk does not take litigation lightly. We pursued the litigation to protect the intellectual property that our customers rely on every day to manage their most critical security and observability needs, and to remedy the risk that infringement of this intellectual property, and related breach of contract, pose to our technology and our customers’ security, resilience and mission-critical data applications.
