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| Authored by: jbb on Monday, April 23 2012 @ 11:48 PM EDT |
| Mitchell was a paid expert for Oracle. Notice the discussion of not talking
about how much experts get paid right after he got off the stand. It's possible
that Google's lawyers didn't understand the close logical connection between
clean rooms and copyright-free APIs. But it is more likely that they were not
sure how Mitchell would answer. There had already been a discussion that said
clean rooms were only useful if you already had a license for the API.
There
is a larger strategy going on here with regard to allotted time. It will be to
Google's benefit to go into their half of the case with a lot more time on their
clock than the time left on Oracle's clock. My guess is they didn't want to
waste time with Mitchell, who would probably be able to evade answering the way
they wanted, so they could have more time with their own witnesses.
As
Van Nest said "we haven't even started our case yet."
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