Oracle Holds Onto Copyright Order Against Rimini, $29M in Fees

Rimini Street Inc. will have to pay Oracle Corp.'s $28.5 million legal bill in their software copyright dispute but can sidestep part of an injunction that a jury handed down against it, a federal appeals court said.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said the trial court’s injunction improperly restricted use of two infringed software programs, and said merely accessing Oracle’s source code wouldn’t violate the Copyright Act. But the appeals court upheld the bulk of the injunction, saying Rimini failed to meet its “heavy burden” to show infringing activity couldn’t “reasonably be expected” to resume.

The ...