[Litigation] Achieved a complete victory in a lawsuit seeking the return of unjust gains for cloud usage costs.

Law firm Veat successfully led to a ruling dismissing all of the plaintiff's claims in an unfair gains return lawsuit filed by Company A (plaintiff) against Company B (defendant), representing defendant B. Law firm Veat's represented Company B is a leading IT service specialist company, which entered into a ‘system construction service contract’ with Company A regarding a project. During the contract, the design was unilaterally changed from a self-built server system to a cloud usage system at the plaintiff’s request, and accordingly, defendant completed the project using a cloud usage system according to the client’s request.

However, after the project was completed, the plaintiff filed a lawsuit for the recovery of unjust gains, claiming that the period during which the cloud was used initially was a ‘development period’ and that all costs during that period should be borne by the defendant. Accordingly, Veat accepted the defendant's instruction and meticulously analyzed the contract between the two companies, arguing and proving that task outlines and proposals related to the original method were not applicable to the modified method, that Company A had agreed to pay the cloud usage fees, that Company A had used cloud space from the beginning, and that, upon a detailed examination of the project progress, work was carried out on a development server separately prepared by Company B during the development period.

In particular, the fact that Company A used cloud space from the beginning and the fact that work was carried out on a development server separately prepared by Company B during the development period, as revealed by Veat’s attorneys after a thorough examination of the cloud’s characteristics and network configuration, were key points that had a decisive impact on the victory. Considering that the court might find it difficult to understand the defendant’s arguments and defenses due to the need to understand the characteristics of the cloud and the network configuration, we persuaded the court through visual presentations, and ultimately achieved a result in which the defendant’s claims were almost adopted.

Law firm Veat is producing the best results that satisfy customers by directly and meticulously analyzing cases and developing countermeasures, led by attorneys majoring in engineering and having a high level of understanding of IT.

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Sincerely, Law firm Veat