Dispute Damages Would Exceed Android Revenues

CWmike writes "A new document in a year-old patent lawsuit filed by Oracle against Google over Android intellectual property suggests Oracle could be seeking huge damages from Google. The damages owed to Oracle, if granted by federal Judge William Alsup for the US District Court for Northern California, would 'far exceed any money Google has ever earned with Android' and could lead to a rewrite of Android's Dalvik virtual machine, considered integral to Android and used by Android device manufacturers and potentially thousands of Android app developers, wrote one blogger, Florian Mueller, who writes about intellectual property issues involving the software industry."

Comments

Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll

[jvillain]

PJ has already chopped the legs out from under this latest troll job.

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Re:Android is a loss leader

[iluvcapra]

You can remove whatever you like from Android. Removing whatever you like from actual marketed phones, on the other hand...

Re:what about harmony

[michael_cain]

Clean room implementations generally protect you from copyright infringement. From a legal perspective, patents are a different beast altogether. If I hold a valid patent, your independent invention of the patented device/algorithm/whatever infringes. The only way you get to legally use that independent invention is to either (a) invalidate my patent or (b) get a license from me.

Re:Florian is not a blogger, he is a troll

[UnknowingFool]

The groklaw article summarizes it like this: It is very early in the MS v Motorola suit; winning a construction claim does not mean much so early. Florian apparently can't count. By his math, MS is up 17- 5. PJ's estimate is MS 12, Motorola 6, and neither 4. Florian seems to have moved all the neither counts to be MS victories. PJ also remind us that in Oracle v Google, Oracle's initial 132 claims have been reduced to 3. Not exactly the gloom that the article paints.