{"id":429,"date":"2011-02-25T17:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T01:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-02-25T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T01:05:17","slug":"hypothetical-license-analysis-questioned-in-oracle-v-sap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/litigation\/case-law\/hypothetical-license-analysis-questioned-in-oracle-v-sap\/","title":{"rendered":"Hypothetical License Analysis Questioned in Oracle v. SAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a massive filing this week, European business-software giant SAP AG is looking to have a new trial on damages. The liability phase was concluded last fall, and the jury’s award of $1.3 billion to Oracle Corp. plus $14 million in pre-judgment interest is the only point of contention left.<\/p>\n

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Coming on the heels of the recent high-profile reviews of IP infringement damages analyses sparked by the Uniloc v. Microsoft<\/a> and the Versata v. SAP<\/a> cases, this latest motion asks the Court to question the proper application of the Georgia Pacific<\/em> factors, which arose in the context of Patent Law, to determine a reasonable royalty to determine the proper remedy for the Plaintiff in this copyright infringement case, and offering the alternative of the disgorgement of defendants’ profits, among other case-specific issues.<\/p>\n

According to the motions, damages should be reduced to a level commensurate with Plaintiff’s own expert’s determination of Oracle’s Lost Profits, which are less than $300 million. In a way, part of the argument is that, in analyzing the “hypothetical license” scenario, Oracle’s expert improperly included in the royalty the reimbursement of Oracle’s overall R&D investments and disregarded evidence of the actual extent of the use made of the infringing information and the actual number of customers SAP acquired.<\/p>\n

We shall continue to monitor the changing damages landscape, not only from the perspective of legislative reform<\/a>, but also from the increasingly acute scrutiny of patent infringement damages expert reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a massive filing this week, European business-software giant SAP AG is looking to have a new trial on damages. The liability phase was concluded last fall, and the jury’s award of $1.3 billion to Oracle Corp. plus $14 million in pre-judgment interest is the only point of contention left. According to the motions, damages should be reduced to a level commensurate with Plaintiff’s own expert’s determination of Oracle’s Lost Profits, which are less than $300 million. In a way, part of the argument is that, in analyzing the “hypothetical license” scenario, Oracle’s expert improperly included in the royalty the reimbursement of Oracle’s overall R&D investments and disregarded evidence of the actual extent of the use made of the infringing information and the actual number of customers SAP acquired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,10],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-6V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}