Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million

jfruh writes "Hey, remember when Oracle decided to sue Google over claims that Android violated Oracle's Java patents and copyrights? How's that working out? Not so well, it seems! Oracle has been forced to take many of its patents out of the lawsuit due to lack of evidence, and the damages in play now are down to a little less than 4 percent of Oracle's original $6.1 billion claims."

Comments

Poor Larry

[Anonymous Coward]

That won't even pay for the mooring fees, let alone an entire yacht!

Re:Abuse of process

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Frankly, both Oracle and Google should just stop fighting immediately and dedicate their effort to reverse-engineering this judge's apparently superb garbage-collecting algorithms...

Re:What about the apple patents?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Apple's behavior is perfectly fair:

After the apotheosis of Jobs, the reality distortion field was so intensified that space and time itself operate differently within the confines of his mortuary temple. Anybody within the sanctum operates as an innovator-outside-of-time. They may appear to release specific developments at specific points in the pitifully linear 'history' experienced by the unenlightened; but they(how this works is a Holy Mystery; but it is so)are simultaneously are perpetually innovating beyond time, have already invented all technologies worth inventing, and will invent all technologies worth inventing.

Human history is, in fact, simply a mortal's-eye-view of the bestowal of gifts of innovation on various Chosen at various times. The patent office is simply recognizing this.

Re:The problem with outlanding numbers

[Penguinisto]

but, "Billions and Billions" does have a nice ring to it.

Only when Carl Sagan said it.

Anyone else just can't quite seem to pull it off.

Re:who cares

[jemtallon]

Mr. Madison, what you have just said, is the most insanely idiotic thing I have ever heard. At no point, in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkWH8DB7b0

It's a strategy we've seen before

[s.petry]

Yes, we saw the same with SCO, Microsoft, and many more. Sadly the plot line reads the same in every script.

Accuser: "They owe us a billion trillion dollars!"

Defendant: "Um, show us what we did wrong."

Accuser: "You stole all the sugar from our candy, and used it in your candy!"

Defendant: "We purchased our own sugar, here's the receipt."

Accuser: "Um.. You owe us one thousand dollars!"

Defendant: "What did we do wrong?"

Accuser: "We were going to buy that sugar, and you cut in line."

So the next act that plays out is going to be whether a jury thinks that taking cuts in line is worth paying the accuser any money for. With SCO, it did not turn out so well. With Microsoft and Apple it has paid off about 1% of the time. Lets hope the court and jury follow the norm and tell Oracle to grow up and act like a big business now.