Oracle Corp. v. SAP AG

Oracle Corporation v. SAP AG
Court	United States District Court for the Northern District of California
Full case name	Oracle Corp., et al v. SAP AG
Decided	September 1, 2011
Docket nos.	4:07-cv-01658
Court membership
Judge(s) sitting	Phyllis J. Hamilton Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen
Keywords
Copyright infringement

Oracle Corp v. SAP AG, No. 4:07-cv-01658, was a United States District Court for the Northern District of California case in which Oracle sued SAP, alleging that SAP had engaged in copyright infringement by downloading thousands of copyrighted documents and programs from Oracle's Customer Connection website. SAP admitted that its subsidiary TomorrowNow had infringed Oracle's copyrights and a jury awarded Oracle record-high damages in the amount of $1.3 billion. Judge Phyllis Hamilton later vacated the jury's verdict, which was based on the calculation of a hypothetical license, and granted SAP's motion for a new trial dependent on Oracle rejecting a remittitur of $272 million. In November 2014, an appeals court ruled for $356.7 million in damages, a decision which was accepted by both parties.^[1]