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Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @03:50AM from the mere-pocket-change dept.

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."

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Abuse of process by mehrotra.akash · 2012-02-21 03:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

the damages in play now are down to a little less than 4 percent of Oracle's original $6.1 billion claims."
At this point, they should just declare that Oracle abused the process and grant Google victory over the remaining patents as compensation/penalty
Re:who cares by Short+Circuit · 2012-02-21 04:05 · Score: 5, Interesting

who cares
If Oracle wins, they'll still have a victory under their belt which they could pursue manufacturers of Android devices?

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Why didn't Google buy Sun? by WOOFYGOOFY · 2012-02-21 04:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

Seriously does anyone know if they considered it at all and if they did why they chose not to? Sun and Google seems to me to have been a natural pairing. Certainly all the absolutely first rate R and D that went on at Sun would have fit into Google's culture. So why didn't they?