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| Authored by: Yossarian on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
Oracle salvaged a couple of claims by explaining to the
patent office that their scope is limited. This explanation
is in public domain and Google can use it in the trial to
say: "those claims are limited to X, android is not X."
I'm sure that we will see a great legal dance based on:
"When I told the patent office X, I actually meant Y".
Programmers will probably have a good laugh, but the jury
may buy it.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:52 PM EDT |
Oracle still has a few patent infringement claims alive in this case. But what
PJ was basically saying was that the "billions" or "hundreds of
millions" that Oracle was originally claiming that they would win in this
law suit have been pared down to a few tens of millions of dollars at most, so
the patent and copyright infringements themselves don't really matter that much
any more,and from her point of view, the most important thing left in this law
suit is Oracle's arguument that programming languages and APIs are protectable
by copyright, and that those issues matter to the computer software industry as
a whole, not just to Oracle and Google.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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