Versata Software has won a patent lawsuit it brought against ERP software vendor which noone knows what it does, SAP.

The jury awarded Versata US$138.64 million in damages on Wednesday after finding that SAP had infringed five of the company's patents. The patents, granted between 1998 and 2006, concerned methods for configuring systems, pricing products in multilevel product and organizational groups, and multisource transaction processing. Versata said that SAP's Business Suite products and related services infringed on the patents.

While it has won the damages it asked for, the outfit is still seeking a permanent injunction preventing SAP from infringing on its patents. SAP has said that it will appeal, but it did not believe the case will have any immediate, negative impact on our customers. Versata sells tools for product configuration, business rules management, policy administration and price optimisation.