Richard Morgan, chief executive of Amphion Innovations (LON:AMP), explains the ins and outs of the ruling it has received in a US federal court relating to its patented intellectual property. He tells Proactive Investors that the company has been striving to protect a software patent related to the world of relational databases, and has been going up against two of the big names in the software business: Microsoft and SAP. The federal court heard a plea by Amphion against an earlier ruling in New York and Morgan feels the federal court verdict was very favourable in terms of the company's ongoing campaign to get companies to license its technology.