Just weeks after McKool Smith attorneys secured a $200 million patent-infringement verdict against Microsoft on behalf of software maker i4i, attorneys for the national trial firm McKool Smith have won a $139 million patent-infringement verdict in the Eastern District of Texas. As reported by Bloomberg and others covering the trial of Versata Software Inc. vs. SAP AG, a jury in Marshall, Texas, awarded more than Versata sought at the outset of the trial. Jurors found that SAP infringed two Versata software product patents related to pricing technology - U.S. Patent Nos. 6,553,350 B2, issued in 2003, and 5,878,400, issued in 1999. The jury also rejected SAP's assertion that the patents were invalid.

Bloomberg reports that the Versata verdict is the fourth-largest patent jury verdict in the U.S. this year and represents the 11th-largest jury award overall for 2009. Meanwhile, McKool Smith's $200 million jury verdict on behalf of i4i against Microsoft was the third largest patent verdict and seventh largest overall verdict of 2009, according to Bloomberg. Last year, McKool Smith was responsible for more of the National Law Journal's Top 100 verdicts of of 2008 than any other firm in the country.