Oracle Seeks to Revive $1.3 Billion SAP Copying Verdict
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Oracle Corp. defended its methods to persuade a 2010 jury to award a record $1.3 billion in damages against SAP AG for copying software, while an appellate panel questioned whether they justified the verdict, later thrown out.
Oracle, the largest database software maker, today asked a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reinstate the verdict or order a new trial in a seven-year-old feud over the downloading and copying of Oracle software by a now-defunct SAP subsidiary.