Oracle’s Sanctions Award Against Rimini Over Software Gets Redo

A Nevada federal court will have to recalculate the $630,000 sanctions award granted to Oracle USA Inc. in a software copyright battle with support service company Rimini Street Inc.

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit agreed Thursday that Rimini was in contempt of the lower court’s permanent injunction order over four issues relating to the copying of Oracle’s software, but the contempt findings over three other issues were reversed or vacated.

The case arose from a 2010 lawsuit brought by Oracle alleging that its software programs—PeopleSoft, Siebel, J.D. Edwards, and Oracle Database—were being unlawfully copied by Rimini ...