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."

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Poor Larry

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Abuse of process

[mehrotra.akash]

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: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...

What about the apple patents?

[backslashdot]

At least they aren't going the route of apple which last week, for example, patented an existing 3D eye tracking based icon display system of which there is a demo by someone else in youtube since 2009.

Would the patent office bother to find out? I dont think so.
Don't believe me, compare it yourself:

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/02/apple-working-on-hot-3d-eye-tracking-interface-for-gaming-iphone.html

versus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SImOIMcMlk

If anyone has any connection to the US patent office they should be made aware.

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.

That's the way it's done

[NoNonAlphaCharsHere]

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.

Re:who cares

[Short Circuit]

who cares

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

Re:The problem with outlanding numbers

[Sique]

In legislations, where it is "loser pays", this first reference point is important for the later outcome. Google was sued for 6.1bn, valuing the lawsuit at 6.1bn. If Oracle manages to get the 230mil awarded, this means that there were 5.87bn, which they didn't get. That would mean that Oracle has to pay 96% of the whole costs for the lawsuit.

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.

Why didn't Google buy Sun?

[WOOFYGOOFY]

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?