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lists of attorneys
Authored by: IANALitj on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 12:37 PM EDT
I find it interesting that the attorneys for defendant Google are listed in
alphabetical order, while those for plaintiff Oracle America are not.

Michael Jacobs is given first billing, ahead of David Boies.


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Corrections thread
Authored by: kuroshima on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 12:44 PM EDT
First time doing this, make it wrong text->right text in the
title

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Newspicks thread
Authored by: kuroshima on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 12:47 PM EDT
Please put a link to the newspick, just in case it scrolls
down the list. Make it clickable, too.

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Comes thread
Authored by: kuroshima on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 12:57 PM EDT
Post comes transcriptions here. Please format it in HTML, but
post it as plain old text, so PJ can copy it for the archive

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Off topic thread
Authored by: kuroshima on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 12:59 PM EDT
Anyone posting on OraGoogle here will have to alphabetize
Oracle's lawyers in all their exhibits, then alphabetize the
exhibits themselves.

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When are we going to hear anything about Google's Rule-50 motion?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 01:05 PM EDT
I thought we'd hear about Google's Rule-50 motion before jury deliberations, no?

It will be indeed bad for Oracle's case to be sank by sloppy attorney represntation, sad.

From what I have read elsewhere on this case, Google introduced Copyright Office evidence showing that that the Copyright Office had no record of whatever Oracle (then SUN), claimed to have submitted to them!

In the second case, the "disk" that Oracle (then SUN), claims to have submitted was blank!

If this turns out to be true, someone at Oracle and another at BS&F is gonna get fired.

I wonder what the folks at BS&F are thinking now, after their failure to check and recheck whatever they were talking about.

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Vicarious is of the table, but damages not affected
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 03:24 PM EDT


Is that just dotting and crossing?

Or that the original damages calculations offered do not cover the vicarious?

Is there any significance to the fact it was filed by Mr Van Nest?

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Robert A. Van Nest?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 03:27 PM EDT

Anybody know what the A stands for?

I note he has no wikipedia page, and Keker & Van Nest's page is tagged as "written like an advertisement". Anybody have the time and knowledge to fix that?

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glossary missing a term: JCK
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 05:28 PM EDT
At some point, the JCK morphed into TCK.

Why?


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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Oracle owns the Documents? where is the CD ???
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 06:48 PM EDT
I thought Sco's BLEPP was bad . A briefcase CHOK full O-Sco evidence.
A BLANK CD CHOK full O- Oracle evidence!
Did Sco own the documents too?

This trial is CHOK full of something I can not mention .

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Value of Witnes testimony?
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 06:49 PM EDT

Oracles expert John Mitchell:

Oracle: So in sum, what would you say about the compatibility?

Dr. John Mitchell: They overlap in concept,


Page 18 Jury instructions...
Another statutory limitation on the scope of a copyright is that copyright never
protects any ... concept,



So Oracles own expert testified that they overlap (the 37APIs) in concept?
which is not protected?


Or am I reading too much into that?

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The Kaffe Virtual Machine
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 09:08 PM EDT
Link

I had forgotten about this clean room implementation.

But, Kaffe is not Java, since they have not done the test suite under license, therefore they can not use the trademark.

From 1996.

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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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I wish I had spotted this earlier.
Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 03:21 AM EDT
In their motions about instructions to the jury, Oracle presented this argument:
In this case, the SSO of the 37 API packages is manifested, in part, in a hierarchy of named packages, classes, methods, and other elements such as interfaces and fields. Dr. Reinhold, Chief Java Architect at Oracle, provided the following example showing the hierarchy of some of the classes in the “java.nio.channels” package:

java.nio.channels

- Object
- Channels
- FileLock
- Pipe
- SelectionKey
- Selection
- AbstractInterruptibleChannel
- FileChannel
- SelectableChannel
- AbstractSelectableChannel
- DatagramChannel
- ServerSocketChannel
- SocketChannel
(RT at 594:2-596:22 (Reinhold); TX 1046 at slide 9 (p.11 of 24).) To meaningfully evaluate the SSO of the API packages, the jury will need to consider the named elements as part of the structure. Without the named elements, the upper portions of the hierarchy (everything above the method declarations) would be incomprehensible:
As I understand it, the case is about the copying of an Oracle copyright document, collective work or compilation to Google's Android.

I am almost completely certain that the tree diagram did not come from the Java SE API Specification documents on the recent Oracle webpage because each level is put into its own document. The chart must be of the directory structure of the part of the hard drive that contains the thousands of individual .class files or their source code equivalents.

My first thought was that Windows XP could not have all those dots in a directory name. That's why I am posting this from Windows XP. I was wrong in that XP can have a directory name of java.nio.channels.

In the instructions to the jury, the judge gave this definition of a copyright work:
Copyright automatically exists in a work the moment it is fixed in any tangible medium of expression, such as putting pen to paper. The owner of the copyright may then register the copyright by delivering to the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress a copy of the copyrighted work and applying via a registration form...
The SSO given in the chart must be fixed in any tangible medium of expression and that medium of expression must be the asserted copyright work in the case.

Is that chart the actual copyright SSO or is it the concept of the file structure as newly expressed by Reinhold?

The jury are asked to consider all 37 packages as part of the work as a whole. Again, where is the copyright work from which the copying took place? That structure does not appear in the Java SE API Specification. Unless it is registered as a whole work, it only exists in the directories of developers who download the JDK into their computers. If the 37 appearing in Android are clean room implementations, where is the copyright work from Sun from which they created their library directories?

The jury are also asked to consider each package in its own right. The same question arises: where did Harmony copy the package directory structure from an Oracle copyright work?

As a final thought, the registrations were dated well before the purported copying. Was the copyright work, that Harmony copied, in the registered work? Why would it be? Would Sun have proposed that Harmony copied all the source code for thousands of class source files in a complete directory of 166 packages from Sun before doing their clean-room code writing?

How would either party consider that a wise way of working? Sun must have delivered another copyright work to Harmony in order that Harmony could do the clean room implementation. Where is it? What were the license terms offered by Sun to Harmony for the copying of the copyright work? Did Harmony actually use an early Java SE API Specification and generate the file structure from the names, ideas and concepts in the document? If so, are the names, ideas and concepts protected by the copyright of the work?

I'm closing down Windows now and moving across to my Linux machine.

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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What's it all about, Api?
Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:55 AM EDT
Mark reports
Oracle has agreed to drop its assertions of indirect infringement from the case. The parties have filed a joint stipulation that vicarious and contributory copyright infringement will be dropped
I took that to mean that Oracle are not accusing Google of inciting developers to use copies of Oracle's work and gaining vicarious pleasure from the copying. OK, perhaps this legal context demands a different understanding of the word 'vicarious'.

Mark described this as indirect copying. Does that mean that only direct copying is left in the case? I would characterise the copying of Harmony code, names and directory structure by Google as an indirect copying of Oracle's copyright work (not that it is clear to me what that copyright work actually is).

If I have got it right (who shouted 'fat chance'!) would there not have to be an instruction that any copying from a third party such as Harmony is not in the case, any more?

That would appear to leave just the test files and the rangeCheck 8 lines (line 9 is '}' and cannot be shown to be copied from rangeCheck).

If the jury find that Google got the 37 packages from Harmony, are they still directly copying from Oracle?

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Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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Microsoft invests in new Barnes & Noble unit, settles litigation But whether the new subsidiary
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 09:38 AM EDT
Microsoft invests in new Barnes & Noble unit, settles
litigation
But whether the new subsidiary will become a stand-alone
public company hasn't been decided

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226702/Microsoft_inve
sts_in_new_Barnes_amp_Noble_unit_settles_litigation?
source=rss_latest_content&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=fe
ed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fnews%2Ffeed+%28Latest
+from+Computerworld%29

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