IBM on Monday won a London lawsuit against U.S. tech entrepreneur and philanthropist John Moores' company LzLabs, which the IT giant accused of stealing trade secrets. IBM sued Switzerland-based LzLabs,

IBM has secured a significant legal victory in a London court against Swiss-based LzLabs, a company backed by US tech entrepreneur and philanthropist John Moores,

In the case, which IBM filed in England and was decided by the London Technology & Construction Court (TCC), IBM alleged that LzLabs’ UK subsidiary Winsopia acquired an IBM mainframe and then illegally reverse-engineered the Big Iron software to build LzLabs’ core Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) package.

IBM has won its closely watched London litigation against Swiss software company LzLabs in an IP licensing and trade secrets dispute. The high-profile case at the Technology and Construction Court of the High Court in London featured a nine-week trial that ran from April to July last year.

Big Blue's case came to court last year, with the IT giant claiming that Winsopia, a UK subsidiary of LzLabs, bought an IBM mainframe computer and an accompanying license in 2013. The company then used this access to reverse engineer IBM’s mainframe software.