The Malvern-based provider of smarter student guidance solutions just navigated its own way around a landmine that could have cut its future short. AcademyOne recently received a favorable court decision in a case of alleged information theft.
“It became pretty apparent very quickly that this case wasn’t about the merits, it was about putting AcademyOne out of business,” a quote in a Philadelphia Business Journal article asserted.
In 2008, AcademyOne’s work on a more efficient process to transfer credits between colleges nationwide crossed paths with digital college catalog provider CollegeSource.
“CollegeSource discovered a potential competitor,” attorney David Landau said in the report, “and approximately a year after this happened, they were competing for a contract in South Carolina and AcademyOne won the contract, and three months later they were sued in California.”
CollegeSource accused AcademyOne of “stealing from its database and interfering with its business in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.”
In the wake of the lawsuit, however, decisions from a trio of courts have sided with AcademyOne and concluded no wrongdoing was committed: the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia and California’s U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Read more about the latest verdict and AcademyOne’s ongoing legal battle in the Philadelphia Business Journal here.
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