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Day 23, Oracle v. Google Trial - NOBODY | 543 comments | Create New Account
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Day 23, Oracle v. Google Trial - Jury Deliberations ~pj
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 01:09 PM EDT
The court could have hired it's own expert, like it didi with the damages.
Although the damages thing didn't seem to work out well.

I've been thinking that hiring a technical expert would have been a good move,
to advise the judge and sort out some of the doublespeak.

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Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

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Day 23, Oracle v. Google Trial - Jury Deliberations ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 01:12 PM EDT
This is why Alsup wanted, urged, pushed for a bench trial...

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CourtTechnicalExperts.org ?
Authored by: hAckz0r on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT
Maybe we need to create a registry pool of available technology experts willing
to confer with the court system to help streamline these kinds of cases. If the
judge had access to a good and non-biased Computer Scientist this case could
have been over a long time ago.

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DRM - As a "solution", it solves the wrong problem; As a "technology" its only
'logically' infeasible.

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Day 23, Oracle v. Google Trial - Jury Deliberations ~pj
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 04:06 PM EDT
You will never find a neutral technical person. Every
technical person in the world that would understand to the
degree needed has a stake in the game.

I'm probably in the minority, but I think that using a jury
this way is hellish on the jury, but is the best way to
figure this sort of thing out.

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Day 23, Oracle v. Google Trial - NOBODY
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 23 2012 @ 09:05 PM EDT
If a neutral technical person existed, he would also have to understand patent
law and copyright.
I think that such a person exists, but both sides in this case would have to
accept him/her which I think would be exceedingly unlikely. Both sides are
looking for an expert that biased in their favor.

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Not necessary if the USPTO abided by the law of the land. ...nt
Authored by: Ian Al on Thursday, May 24 2012 @ 10:48 AM EDT
.

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Ian Al
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