Google in the clear on Oracle patents
API copyright decision still to come
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Google has successfully defended Android against Oracle’s patent infringement claim, leaving whether its API breaches copyright as the only question still in play between the two companies.
The 10-person San Francisco jury has found that neither of the two patents that were the grounds for Oracle’s suit were infringed. As a result, Oracle won’t be able to block Android sales in the US, and the judge has noted that its damages in the separate copyright suit are limited to $150,000. Oracle had originally hoped for as much as $US1 billion from the patent suit and $US6 billion for the copyright infringement.
According to Bloomberg, a win on the copyright question might “revive the company’s ability to seek large damages”. US District Judge William Alsup may rule as early as next week on the API copyright question.
Google calls the win a victory “for the entire Android ecosystem”, while Oracle hinted at an appeal, saying it will “continue to defend and uphold Java’s core write-once, run-anywhere principle and ensure it is protected for the nine million Java developers and the community that depend on Java compatibility.”
The Register’s backgrounder on the case is here. ®
COMMENTS
Re: Probaby not too important from Oracle's point of view
Funny that wasn't the FUD that Oracle was spewing to all of Android handset makers and Google's other customers.
100% record
Has Florian Mueller ever been right about anything?
Re: Probaby not too important from Oracle's point of view
"Before this trial started, it had already become crystal clear that the copyright part of the case was going to be the important one"
Is this a reversing bicycle I see before me, the handles towards my hand? Come, let me clutch at straws. FUD, I have thee not, and yet I pursue thee still. Art thou not, fatal logic, nonsensical to feeling as to sight, or art thou but the propaganda of a shill, a false creation, proceeding from the patent-troll's brain?
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