Did Google Knowingly Violate Java Patents?

jfruhlinger writes "Opponents of software patenting have been rather heartened by recent developments in the Oracle-Google lawsuit, which have seemed to indicate that Oracle's patent case is weakening. But now the judge in the case has some sharp questions for Google, given that Google tried to negotiate with Sun over the patents in question before going on to develop Android without them."

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waiting for details

[v1]

may have been a simple "we see you have patented xyz, would you consider our doing abc a violation, and if so, what's licensing going to cost?"

answer may have been along the lines of "pretty much anything you do we may try to sue you for, so you'd be better off paying us a ton of money upfront now". "OK, no thanks, we'll take our chances in court."

Or it may have been something completely different. But that's just my guess.

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[poetmatt]

where was the "florian mueller contributed to the article" and it's completely unreliable warning?

This isn't about groklaw, but nothing shows for the judge asking anything other than telling Oracle to explain where it's magic numbers came from. Oh and potentially google seeking discovery sanctions on oracle but it has not been raised by google. That's about it. If this had actually linked groklaw somewhere, which it didn't. There is no "danger" for google in any form, nor did the judge imply it was plausible that google did anything. Where does TFS or the article make that shit up?

The only person who filed today was google, not the judge. So where does this shit come from? This article is fud.

groklaw has good coverage on this one

[mrflash818]

"Oracle v. Google - Google Moves to Supplement Its Invalidity Defenses"

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110712074100640