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Intellectual Property,
Civil Litigation,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Aug. 24, 2020

Circuit panel revives Oracle’s infringement suit against Hewlett Packard

Oracle alleged in 2016 that HPE and service support company Terix Computer illegally allowed customers to access Solaris operating system patches.

A federal appeals panel revived a copyright infringement lawsuit by Oracle accusing Hewlett Packard Enterprise of installing for customers patches of its proprietary Solaris software.

Reversing part of a federal judge's summary judgment ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found on Aug. 20 that Oracle sufficiently showed that HPE offered illegal Solaris updates as part of a deliberate scheme with Terix.

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