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Really, ya'll gotta get over your butthurt about the Oracle vs Google jury's decision | 458 comments | Create New Account
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Really, ya'll gotta get over your butthurt about the Oracle vs Google jury's decision
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, September 24 2012 @ 09:09 PM EDT
"Limits on openness" is a reporters summation of a jurors summation of the attitude of the tech savy jurors. All put into a tweet which has severe limts on the number of characters used. I take it mean that the tech savy jurors were disinclined to accept that there were any limits on what use of Java specifications could be made outside of actual use of the tradmark.
Alrighty, then, try to find something in the jury verdict form or instructions, which is plenty more verbose than 140 characters, that indicates that this should have been a concern of theirs. And if you want a more complete quote, here it is: [1].

Something experts testified that Sun mot only indicated publicly but intended.
Yeahhhh, the jury didn't buy it. (Hint: Yes, there was a question related to it on the form. No, they didn't think Google should have believed it.)

As for the wholesale copying of nine lines of code, even the judge who said it happened said it was not a significant amount.
Actually, my bad... it wasn't rangeCheck, it was the 9 test files that the Judge had to overrule the jury on. And it doesn't matter if it was de minimis, my point was the jury didn't see it.

This compared to Hogan who pushed a theory, "if runs on a different processor it is not prior art", something which he has freely admitted he told other jurors, and of all the jurors making statements, that they looked to him for guidance on patent validity issues.
Well, that's not patent law is it? That's just technical guidance. This is the risk you run with a jury trial. Note that if he meant to say "hardware" instead of "processor", his theory makes sense: Apple's method won't run on a keypad- based device. Although the legal problem here is that he didn't consider the Doctrine of Equivalents, but again: jury trial. It's a real crapshoot.

So next time I suggest that you read something other then tweets,
You mean, like [1]?
and oh yeah get over your butthurt about the Oracle vs Google verdict.
Right. Pretty much nothing on this forum in the past few days has been anything other than piling on the Hogan guy. Just exposing the double standards here, and you people use the "I'm-rubber-you're-glue" argument. Butthurt much? :-P

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech- policy/2012/05/ora cle-v-google-jury-foreman-reveals-oracle-wasnt-even- close/ The jurors didn't want to limit "future expansion of the common good." That was not part of the verdict form. If they wanted something like that, one option available to them was Jury Nullification.
[2] http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/7/3004697/oracle-google-tri al- deadlocked-jury-partial-verdict

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