Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 8 at 6:40 am PT
Oracle won part of its argument, but failed to make it stick.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 7 at 11:28 am PT
The jury in the Oracle-Google trial over Java has come back.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 7 at 10:49 am PT
The jury deciding the Oracle-Google lawsuit over Java is back for another day of deliberations, and maybe, just maybe a verdict. Or not.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 4 at 6:20 am PT
A note to the judge asks: What happens if the jury can’t reach a verdict?
Voices
Michael Rothfeld and Susan Pulliam, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 14, 2011 at 3:22 pm PT
A government witness at the insider-trading trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam told the jury Monday how he leaked details of “super confidential” negotiations between two technology companies to the hedge-fund chief, who was shocked at the terms of the possible deal.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 3, 2011 at 3:03 pm PT
SAP believes the jury was too generous in its award to Oracle and that the damages are not proportionate to its subsidiary’s offense of intellectual-property theft.
News Byte
Beth Callaghan in News on January 4, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
ruled today to reinstate a jury decision from an April case that found Microsoft’s anti-piracy software installation system infringed a patent held by Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd. The judge in the original case had thrown out the jury’s finding. The court also ruled, though, that a new trial is required to determine how much Microsoft should pay, stating that the jury’s $388 million award to Uniloc was “fundamentally tainted.”
John Paczkowski in News on December 29, 2010 at 4:35 am PT
SAP would rather not pay Oracle interest on top of the $1.3 billlion in damages awarded the company last month. But if it must, it would prefer that the interest be calculated at a lower rate. The company argued that point in a recent court filing, and Tuesday evening a court agreed.
John Paczkowski in News on November 23, 2010 at 2:54 pm PT
Billions or millions. That was the central question in the Oracle vs. SAP case and in the end, the jury determined its answer to be billions with a “b.” For the theft of Oracle’s intellectual property by its now shuttered TomorrowNow division, SAP must pay Oracle $1.3 billion.
