German software maker SAP has been ordered to pay $1.3 billion in damages to Oracle for copyright infringement. The companies had already determined that SAP was guilty of the act, but moved forward with the jury trial in order to determine damages. Now, SAP finds itself facing a record-setting judgment that it wasn't quite prepared for, but plans to appeal.
The lawsuit dates back to 2009, when Oracle accused SAP of posing as other companies in order to gain access to Oracle's intellectual property (the PeopleSoft system, for those of you who are painfully familiar with it). It alleged that SAP intended to "take the maintenance revenue stream away from [Oracle]." Among other things, SAP hurriedly acquired a company called TomorrowNow in order to make mass copies of Oracle's software and data, and then supposedly used software to comb Oracle's website for patches and updates to that software.
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