DALLAS, June 27 TX-McKool-Smith
DALLAS, June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- McKool Smith, PC, the national
intellectual property and commercial litigation firm, is announcing an
$83.3 million settlement reached on behalf of supply-chain technology provider
i2 Technologies Inc. The settlement resolves i2's patent litigation against
Germany's SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) and its United States subsidiary, Newtown Square,
Penn.-based SAP America Inc.
Under the terms of the agreement made public yesterday, June 26, 2008, SAP
will pay $83.3 million to i2 to resolve the lawsuit filed in September 2006 in
the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In the litigation,
i2 asserted that SAP had infringed seven patents covering software programs
related to supply chain planning, electronic negotiation, collaboration, and
available-to-promise product management.
The McKool Smith team representing i2 included firm principals Ted
Stevenson, Sam Baxter, and David Sochia, and firm associates Jill Bindler,
Chris Bovenkamp, Steve Callahan, Bo Davis and Scott Hejny.
The contested patents included U.S. Patent Numbers 5,764,543; 5,930,156;
5,983,194; 6,055,519; 6,167,380; 6,188,989; and 7,085,729.
Dallas-based i2 Technologies Inc. is an innovator and worldwide provider
of supply-chain management technology for some of the world's largest
companies. Throughout its 20-year history of innovation and value delivery,
i2 has dedicated itself to building successful customer partnerships. As a
full-service supply chain company, i2 is uniquely positioned to help its
clients achieve world-class business results through a combination of
consulting, technology, and managed services. i2 solutions are pervasive in a
wide cross-section of industries; 21 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply
Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at http://www.i2.com.
McKool Smith has more than 95 attorneys handling commercial and
intellectual property litigation for national and international clients,
including Fortune 500 companies, universities, start-ups, and individuals. The
firm is recognized as one of the premier litigation and trial firms in the
United States, having earned significant courtroom victories for clients such
as American Airlines, Electronic Data Systems, BearingPoint, Ericsson,
Lockheed Martin, Medtronic Inc. and National Instruments.
For more information, please contact Bruce Vincent at 800.559.4534 or
bruce@androvett.com.
SOURCE McKool Smith, PC
