US district court rejects patent claims against Hexaware Technologies

A district court in the United States has dismissed patent infringement complaints against mid-tier IT service provider Hexaware Technologies, filed by US-based Natsoft Corporation and its affiliate, UK-based Updraft, the company said on Friday.

The ruling was issued on June 9 by the US district court for the Northern District of Illinois. “The Court found that the asserted patents claimed broad, abstract ideas rather than any specific, concrete invention, and were therefore ineligible for patent protection under U.S. law,” Hexaware Technologies said in a statement.

The lawsuit, filed by Natsoft in October last year, had claimed that Hexaware leveraged proprietary technologies without proper licences, naming Hexaware’s Amaze, Tensai and RapidX platforms. Hexaware had maintained that the products were developed through its own engineering efforts and did not infringe on Natsoft’s or any third-party intellectual property.


“We have been clear about our confidence since the day this suit was filed, and the Court’s decision reflects why we held it,” said Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan, executive director and CEO, Hexaware Technologies. “These platforms came from our own research and from years of investment by our own engineers. The Court found that what Natsoft asserted was too abstract to be a patentable invention. Hexaware holds patents of its own precisely because our work is specific, real, and original.”

Hexaware Technologies shares rose as much as 5% in morning trade after the lawsuit dismissal news, before closing 0.72% down at Rs. 498.65 apiece on the National Stock Exchange.

The Mumbai-based company said it had obtained US patent protection for methods used in its Amaze and Tensai platforms and that an additional US patent related to Tensai had recently been allowed and is expected to be issued.

The company described the lawsuit as meritless when it was filed and said the latest ruling followed a motion to dismiss that it submitted in December 2025.

Hexaware Technologies also said that the litigation did not have any material impact on its operations, customer commitments, partner programmes or financial position, and that it did not expect any such impact in the future.