A jury has found that Boeing stole trade secrets of a small aerospace startup in Redmond that planned to build a hybrid-electric aircraft. The jury awarded Zunum Aero, Inc. nearly $90 million in damages in a verdict that a Seattle federal judge could triple to around $250 million. A lawyer for the plaintiff said the exact damages were still being determined. The verdict ends a David vs. Goliath lawsuit filed in 2020 by two MIT graduates who founded Zunum. The lawsuit said Boeing sought to invest in Zunum’s aircraft which would make hybrid-electric air travel “… economically viable decades sooner that the aerospace industry otherwise thought possible.” Zunum claimed Boeing sent engineers and other personnel to conduct due diligence on its investment, but then stole information and trade secrets. READ MORE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/jury-awards-potential-damages-trade-secrets-lawsuit-against-boeing/281-564a676e-0f66-48a9-9ec1-710a1b891ca8