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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."
That's the way lawyers and lawsuits work, especially in the Fantasyland of "Intellectual Property" law -- throw anything and everything at the wall, see what sticks. Rinse, repeat.
The patent office rubber stamps whatever comes in, and lets the courts sort it out.
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- is that you can't get upset when someone uses them universally.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Unfortunately I don't think "stating ridiculously huge amounts" has ever been a disqualifier in the US legal system...
What I dont get is how come there isnt a penalty for pursuing a lawsuit where 96% of it is thrown out?
If Oracle had brought a similar lawsuit on a small firm instead of Google, they(the small firm) would have probably been shut down just because of the costs of the suit
An excellent point. Google should have, and it was a strategic mistake not to do it. Google uses Java quite a bit internally, it would have not only insulated Google from any Java hijinks, but Google would have (I believe) been a far better steward of Java than Oracle. Google still could have spun off Sun's hardware division, which had not interest for it.
In fact, Java could finally have become what it should have to begin with, and been the premier client-side language for web development, instead of Dart.
Oracle buying Sun was a real inflection point in IT history.
Galileo: "The Earth revolves around the Sun!"
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What I dont get is how come there isnt a penalty for pursuing a lawsuit where 96% of it is thrown out?
Are you serious? Who benefits from long drawn out frivolous lawsuits? Lawyers. Who controls the courts? Judges, who are lawyers. Who makes the laws? Politicians, who are 85% lawyers. There is no one in a position to fix the system who has any incentive to do so.