Lawson Appeals Lower Court Decision

Lawson Software

today announced that it is seeking a stay from the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit of the injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Lawson's patent litigation with ePlus, Inc. The outcome of the ePlus patent litigation is not an express condition of Lawson's pending merger with GGC Software Holdings, Inc., an affiliate of Infor and Golden Gate Capital, and is not expected to delay the merger. If granted a stay, Lawson may continue to service and support all of its procurement products used with Requisitions Self-Service. In January 2011, the jury found in favor of ePlus related to Lawson's S3 procurement system used with RSS. The core Lawson S3 procurement system (including Requisition, Purchase Order, and Inventory Control modules) was found not to infringe.