Redwood City, California-based Free Flow Packaging Corp has won an award of $230,536 in lost profit damages against Hewlett-Packard Co in the Superior Court in Palo Alto and the award may be increased by interest and associated costs: if Hewlett-Packard fails to agree with the damage award, a new trial will be held only on the amount of the lost profit damages, as the judge also denied Hewlett-Packard’s motion for a new trial on all issues decided earlier; a Superior Court jury originally found Hewlett-Packard guilty on May 23, 1990 of breaching both a 1983 purchase contract and an April 1984 oral agreement to resolve the 1983 breach; Free-Flow is a long time supplier of loose-fill recycled polystyrene packaging beads to Hewlett-Packard.
