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Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case

Posted by Unknown on from the larry-ellison-still-owns-an-island dept.

eldavojohn writes "You may recall the news that Google would not be paying Oracle for Oracle's intellectual property claims against the search giant. Instead, Google requested $4.03 million for lawyer fees in the case. The judge denied some $2.9 million of those fees and instead settled on $1.13 million as an appropriate number for legal costs. Although this is relative peanuts to the two giants, Groklaw breaks the ruling down into more minute detail for anyone curious on what risks and repercussions are involved with patent trolling."

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  1. Patents by GeneralTurgidson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The bailout for the lawyer industry.

  2. Re:Haha Larry by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But a court slapdown that means Oracle loses any control of the Java language it asserted it had is a pretty major loss. Oracle's purchase of Sun is proving to be a pretty crappy investment all in all.

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  3. Re:Haha Larry by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If oracle could have got its claws into Android to extort some licensing fees, it would have done a helluva lot for the bottom line.

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  4. Re:Pocket change by viperidaenz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean the MySQL that is owned by Oracle?