A pattern is appearing in Oracle’s Java licensing enforcement that every in-house counsel with an Oracle footprint needs to understand.

Many Oracle customers understand that Oracle is not their friend and Oracle has been accused by many of using hard ball audit tactics (if not downright fraud) against Oracle customers to...

Oracle and Rimini Street's July 2025 settlement marks a pivotal moment for enterprise software customers, particularly those running PeopleSoft systems. While the Ninth Circuit handed Oracle a legal defeat on copyright claims, the settlement's commercial terms—including a 2028 wind-down of Rimini's PeopleSoft support—may shift pricing leverage back to Oracle in ways that could materially impact customer support costs over the next three years.

On September 2, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio issued a ruling that should alarm every small and mid-sized business that has purchased software from global giants like Oracle.

In a significant victory for American businesses confronting unfair foreign competition, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued...

Oracle's lawsuit against a former employee reveals the extensive customer data Oracle collects and uses to drive sales strategy. The case exposes how Oracle tracks deployment details, pricing, contract terms, and usage patterns to maintain informational advantage in negotiations. Companies running Oracle software should understand the implications of this data collection and take steps to level the playing field.

Oracle is not the only software company accused of using predatory audit tactics to drive sales of its software products.

On July 24, 2023 in a major win for Oracle, Chief Judge Miranda Du of the District of Nevada entered a 197 page bench order that gives Oracle...

The email arrives on a Tuesday afternoon. It is polite. It is addressed to someone in procurement or IT who has never seen one before. It references a section number in an agreement signed years ago by people who no longer work at the company.

Oracle claims that all servers running the VMware software require an Oracle license even when there is no Oracle software installed on them.

The court expressly found that under Pennsylvania law an actor need not hold the title to the property to be considered a seller.

The case went to trial in July of 2019 and after a 5-day jury trial Oracle scored a complete defense verdict.

For three years, we have been writing about Oracle’s Java licensing enforcement as a slow-motion campaign — one that began with “friendly” compliance emails, continued through a series of escalating sales-team...

When a nine-figure ERP transformation collapses, the vendor’s limitation-of-liability clause is usually the whole ballgame. Here is how a well-pleaded fraud claim can get you past it — under California law...

Failed ERP implementations are often described as "project problems." Oracle reinforces this framing, pointing to implementation partners, change management challenges, or customer indecision.

Oracle America, Inc. ("Oracle") has moved to dismiss in response to a class action lawsuit complaint involving its SuiteSuccess ERP solution filed in the Northern District of Ohio.

On May 2, 2026, Celonis filed a motion in Celonis SE v. SAP SE, Case No. 3:25-cv-02519-VC (N.D. Cal.), for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint.

Well respected San Francisco Plaintiffs' firm Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bertstein LLP ("Lieff Cabraser") has hit Oracle America, Inc. with a massive class action lawsuit alleging several...

A new class action filed in the Western District of Texas alleges that GlobalLogic Inc. and Oracle Corporation failed to protect highly sensitive personal information associated with GlobalLogic's workforce.

Courts do not consider mere "puffery" to be a fraud, and such statements cannot support the recission of a contract for fraud in the inducement or an affirmative fraud claim.