Oracle Federal Appellate Court Decisions

TAYO DARAMOLA V. ORACLE AMERICA, INC., ET AL

Filed: February 6, 2024


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 22-15959

Labor Law. The panel affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a whistleblower-retaliation action brought under the Sarbanes- Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts by a Canadian citizen.The panel held that the whistleblower anti-retaliation provisions in the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank Acts do not apply outside the United States. The panel applied a presumption against extraterritoriality. Agreeing with other circuits, the panel concluded that the presumption was not overcome because…

ORACLE USA, INC., ET AL V. RIMINI STREET, INC.

Filed: August 24, 2023


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 22-15188

Civil Contempt The panel affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated in part the district court’s order holding Rimini Street, Inc., in civil contempt and imposing sanctions for violations of a permanent injunction in copyright infringement litigation between Rimini and Oracle USA, Inc.The permanent injunction generally prohibited Rimini from reproducing, preparing derivative works from, or distributing certain Oracle software. The district court identified ten potential…

ORACLE AMERICA, INC. v. GOOGLE LLC

Filed: May 14, 2021


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 17-1118

David Balch v. Oracle Corporation

Filed: February 17, 2021


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Case Number: 19-2433

Oracle America Inc. v. United States

Filed: September 2, 2020


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 19-2326

ORACLE AMERICA, INC. V. HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE CO.

Filed: August 20, 2020


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 19-15506

Oracle America, Inc. v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.

Filed: August 20, 2020


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 19-15506

Copyright. The panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. in a copyright infringement action brought by Oracle America, Inc., and Oracle International Co. Oracle, owner of the proprietary Solaris software operating system, granted customers a limited use license and required customers to have a prepaid annual support contract to access patches for a server. Oracle alleged that HPE improperly…

In Re: Oracle Oil, L.L.C.

Filed: February 7, 2020


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Case Number: 19-30519

ORACLE USA, INC. V. RIMINI STREET, INC.

Filed: August 16, 2019


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 18-16554

ORACLE USA, INC. V. RIMINI STREET, INC.

Filed: April 16, 2019


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 16-16832

Copyright / Costs. Pursuant to the Supreme Court’s decision in Rimini Street, Inc. v. Oracle USA, Inc., 139 S. Ct. 873 (2019), the panel vacated the portion of the district court’s judgment awarding non-taxable costs in a copyright suit and remanded for further proceedings.

MARCELLA JOHNSON V. ORACLE AMERICA, INC.

Filed: March 21, 2019


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 17-17489

ORACLE AMERICA, INC. v. GOOGLE INC.

Filed: March 27, 2018


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 17-1118

CLICK-TO-CALL TECHNOLOGIES v. ORACLE CORP.

Filed: January 19, 2018


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 15-1242

ORACLE USA, INC. V. RIMINI STREET, INC.

Filed: January 8, 2018


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 16-16832

Copyright The panel affirmed in part, reversed in part, and vacated in part the district court’s judgment after a jury trial in favor of Oracle USA, Inc., on its copyright infringement and California and Nevada state law claims against Rimini Street, Inc., a provider of third-party support for Oracle’s enterprise software, and Seth Ravin, Rimini’s CEO. Oracle licenses its software and also sells its licensees maintenance contracts. The maintenance work includes software…

THOUGHT, INC. v. ORACLE CORPORATION

Filed: August 21, 2017


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 16-2369

CROSSROADS SYSTEMS, INC. v. ORACLE CORPORATION

Filed: June 6, 2017


Court: US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 16-1930

CLICK-TO-CALL TECHNOLOGIES, LP v. ORACLE CORPORATION

Filed: November 17, 2016


Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 15-1242

CLICK-TO-CALL TECHNOLOGIES, LP v. ORACLE CORPORATION

Filed: November 17, 2016


Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 15-1242

Vincent A. Beacom v. Oracle America, Inc.

Filed: June 6, 2016


Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Case Number: 15-1729

Benton, Author, with Smith and Bye, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank. In action by former employee alleging Oracle had terminated him in retaliation for challenging Oracle's revenue projections, the court adopts the test set out in Sylvester v. Parexel Int'l LLC, ARB No. 07-123, 2011 WL 2165854 (ARB May 25, 2011) which holds that to satisfy the objective component of the "reasonable belief" standard, an employee must simply prove that a reasonable person in the…

CLICK-TO-CALL TECHNOLOGIES, LP v. ORACLE CORPORATION

Filed: November 12, 2015


Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Case Number: 15-1242