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Oracle Steps Up Fight With SAP in Filing - WSJ.com

By Ben Worten Oracle Corp. alleged in a federal-court filing Monday that executives at rival SAP AG knew that an SAP subsidiary was stealing Oracle trade secrets. The filing is the latest salvo in a suit Oracle brought against SAP in U.S. District Court in San Francisco in March 2007. The suit alleges that TomorrowNow Inc., which SAP bought in 2005, illegally obtained and reused Oracle software-support documentation. In Monday's San Francisco Federal Court filing, Oracle claims that SAP Chief Executive Henning Kagermann and other members of SAP's executive team knew that TomorrowNow misused Oracle's intellectual property before making the acquisition. The new allegations are based on documents uncovered during the discovery phase of the lawsuit and on witness depositions.

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