Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr


Dates: July 2005 - December 2005

Case No. 2:04-CV-436 (TJW), in the US District Court, Marshall Texas.

This case involved Hyperion suing OutlookSoft.

The issues revolved around "Performance Databases" in which budgets may be prepared in a distributed online fashion using spreadsheets.

Each side sued the other and there were four patents involved, two from each side.  I provided a declaration regarding claim construction for the four patents, as well as a 7.5-hour deposition in the offices of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in New York City.

Wilmer Hale won the case.  Here is a link to the Press Release by Wilmer Hale.

Both Hyperion and OutlookSoft has since been acquired by Oracle and SAP, respectively.

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