Micro Focus tells investors it will appeal against $172.5m patent infringement case Micro Focus International has told the London Stock Exchange it intends to appeal judgments resulting from a verdict of a patent infringement against it in the US. The jury's decision comes less than three years after a complaint was filed in July 2018 [PDF] in the Eastern District of Texas, in which Wapp Tech Limited …
It's not clear whether Wapp Tech Limited were previously trying it on with HPE or whether they only appeared out of the woodwork after Micro Focus had acquired the Software Division.
Given the way HP are going on about Autonomy and actually win in court, that could mean HPE Software Division was also worth a few billion less...
Having skim read more of the document, it does appear that Wapp made no effort to either approach or enter into a licensing agreement with HPE, prior to the Micro Focus purchase - otherwise they would surely have included this in their 'evidence', which would seem to indicate they knew that HPE could shot the ground out from under their feet.
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