Informatica

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION FOR TREBLE DAMAGES, ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND PREJUDGMENT INTEREST, AND SETTING HEARING ON POST-TRIAL MOTIONS

This patent infringement action came before the Court for trial by jury on March 12, 2007. Following the close of evidence, argument of counsel, and the Court’s instructions, the case was submitted to the jury on March 29, 2007. On April 2, 2007, after one and one-half days of deliberation, the jury returned a unanimous verdict for Plaintiff Informática Corporation, finding that Defendant Business Objects Data Integration, Inc. (“BODI”), indirectly infringed claims 1, 8, 12, 15, and 18 of the '670 Patent, and claims 5, 7, and 11 of the '775 Patent, and that the claims are not invalid for anticipation, statutory bar or obviousness. The jury further found that BODI’s infringement was willful.

The jury awarded reasonable royalty damages in the amount of $25,240,000. On the special verdict form, the jury attributed $2,524,000, or 10% of the damages award, to BODI’s act of supplying or causing to be supplied in or from the United States all or a substantial portion of the components of a patented invention, in such a manner as to…