The verdict shows that jurors agreed Hewlett Packard “knowingly engaged in unlawful activity with a criminal enterprise - Terix - to directly interfere with and damage Oracle through the repeated theft of its critical copyrighted Solaris patches and firmware updates,” said Oracle’s attorneys, Christopher Yates, Sarah Ray, Sy Damle and Brittany Lovejoy of the Latham & Watkins firm. The court said a jury could find Hewlett Packard, which worked with Terix, responsible for unauthorized installations.Īfter a three-week trial, the jury concluded unanimously that Hewlett Packard had violated Oracle’s copyright and interfered with its contracts with customers.
Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the suit in 2020, saying Oracle had presented evidence from Hewlett Packard Enterprise records of 210 instances in which Solaris software had been installed on its customers’ equipment without permission from Oracle.
