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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 15 2012 @ 06:01 PM EDT |
The copyright half of the case is a bit of a mess.
Judge Alsup could straighten most of it out pretty quickly by ruling that the
SSO of APIs is not protected by copyright law. I think that will probably
happen right at the end, though : after everything has been briefed and after
phase 3.
Meanwhile, let's see what the jury's verdict is on the patents! And how the
damages phase goes.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 09:32 AM EDT |
Given the complexity of the issues it seems to be back on track. The SSO part
was there to try and make the judges life easier, everyone who builds software
relies on fair use otherwise you'd never write an interface to anyone elses
system and it needs to be cemented in law otherwise we'll have the big CORP
bully boy tactics of using the legal system to shut down competition. This also
highlights the fact that if it wasn't for Google's financial resources in being
able to stand toe to toe and call thier bluff then Oracle's Legal team would
have probably got away with thier smoke and mirrors tricks and managed to create
the sort of legal precedent that would cause havoc in the IT industry.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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