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USPTO Rejects Many of Oracle's Android Claims

Posted by Soulskill on from the get-outta-here-with-that-nonsense dept.

sfcrazy writes "In yet another setback for Oracle, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected 17 of 21 claims associated with one of the patents in Java that Oracle asserted Google had violated with Android. Groklaw reports, 'In the reexamination of U.S. Patent 6192476 the USPTO has issued an office action in which it rejects 17 of the patent's 21 claims.'"

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  1. Re:Liability by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If patent examiners would be "liable" then you can as well ask that judges should be ...

    What I mean is: if people working for any government agency would be liable (and not the agency or the government) then all those agencies would come to a grinding halt.

    Or even more likely no one would want to work for them ...

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