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SAP said in a statement that it is “committed to the highest standards of business ethics and respects the intellectual property rights of others.”
“o9 believes that the evidence of SAP’s coordinated attack on o9 is clear and compelling,” o9 CEO Chakri Gottemukkala said in a statement.
Dallas-based o9 specializes in artificial intelligence-powered business planning software. The lawsuit said that SAP had lost customers to competitors after it introduced a new version of its enterprise planning and supply chain management software with “high costs, [a] long timeline, operational risks, and poor implementation.”
The lawsuit said that three o9 executives, all based in the Netherlands, left for SAP this year and took more than 22,000 files with them that included confidential technical, marketing and sales information about o9’s supply-chain software.
The complaint said that SAP has since altered its software to “closely mimic” o9’s products.
“It has now become evident that SAP wishes to displace o9 as the leader in the advanced business planning solutions space by attempting to copy o9’s platform architecture, its capabilities, and its product messaging strategies,” o9 said.
o9 requested a court order blocking SAP from misusing its trade secrets and unspecified monetary damages.
The case is o9 Solutions Inc v. SAP SE, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, No. 3:25-cv-03245.
For o9: Taj Clayton, Adam Alper, Michael De Vries, Carson Young and Christopher Lawless of Kirkland & Ellis
For SAP: attorney information not yet available
Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington
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