---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001441683-25-000020"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "APPN"
cik: "0001441683"
company_name: "APPIAN CORP"
filed_at: "2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-25T03:32:21.327714+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Supreme Court of Virginia agrees to hear Appian appeal to reinstate $2.036B verdict vs Pegasystems

## Summary
- Petition granted on all four issues to restore jury verdict of willful and malicious trade secret misappropriation.
- Pegasystems' cross-appeal on sufficiency of evidence also accepted; Virginia Computer Crimes Act violation remains final.
- Original $2.036B judgment based on seven-week trial and thousands of pages of evidence of a spy used by Pegasystems.
- Appian cannot predict outcome or timeline but is encouraged by the court's decision to hear the case.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001441683-25-000020
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: APPN
- cik: 0001441683
- company_name: APPIAN CORP
- filed_at: 2025-03-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441683/000144168325000020/0001441683-25-000020-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1441683/000144168325000020/appn-20250307.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001441683-25-000020
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001441683-25-000020.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001441683-25-000020.txt

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.