HSF Kramer secures $17 million patent verdict for Cyandia against SAP America, SAP SE

On April 16, 2026, a jury in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, returned a $17 million verdict in favor of Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer client Cyandia Inc. in its patent infringement case against SAP America Inc. and SAP SE (collectively, SAP). The jury found that SAP had violated two of Cyandia’s patents covering technologies for managing multiple information forms across computing devices and that the infringement was willful. The verdict stems from Cyandia’s February 2024 suit alleging that SAP willfully infringed some of its patents. SAP’s efforts to have one of the patents invalidated by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) were unsuccessful. Two of the patents proceeded to trial, resulting in the jury’s verdict for Cyandia.

 The HSF Kramer team representing Cyandia was led by Intellectual Property partner Paul J. Andre and included partners Lisa Kobialka, James Hannah and Kristopher B. Kastens; senior associates Aakash Jariwala, and Shreya Ramchandani; and associates Timothy Layden, Dana Anderson, Charles Keller and Violaine Brunet.