SAP loses bid to overturn $345 million patent judgment

An appeals court has rejected SAP's attempt to overturn a US$345 million judgment awarded to Versata Software, which had brought a patent-infringement case against the software maker. "Sufficient evidence supports the jury's verdict," Chief Judge Randall Rader wrote in the decision, which was released Wednesday. In the 1990s, Versata developed and sold software that companies use to determine the prices of their offerings based on customer size, geographic location and other factors, the decisio...