Starting today, the reckoning begins with the selection of a jury to consider the charges.
Lawsuit is a gamble The stakes are high.
Meanwhile, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office has staked its reputation on this rare attempt to pin criminal sanctions on a company and its top executives for trade secrets theft, a legal claim usually left to the civil courts. Settlement effort failed The long-delayed trial begins after prosecutors and defense lawyers spent recent weeks locked up in settlement talks in Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Conrad Rushing's chambers. But efforts to end the legal war without a trial collapsed, according to lawyers familiar with the matter. The indictment names the company, CEO Gerald Hsu and other current and former executives, including the four former Cadence engineers who formed the original company. All the defendants have insisted they are innocent of wrongdoing.