Google Twists the Knife, Asks For Sanctions Against Oracle Attorney (arstechnica.com)

Google isn't done with its victory over Oracle. Court filings suggest that Google will be filing a motion for sanctions against Oracle and its law firm, Orrick, Sutcliffe & Herrington. The Mountain View-based company is apparently irked that Oracle attorney disclosed the financial agreements between Google and Apple. From an Ars Technica report: Speaking in open court, Oracle attorney Annette Hurst said that Google's Android operating system had generated revenue of $31 billion and $22 billion in profit. She also disclosed that Google pays Apple $1 billion to keep Google's search bar on iPhones. "Look at the extraordinary magnitude of commerciality here," Hurst told a magistrate judge as she discussed the revenue figures. The $1 billion figure comes from a revenue-split that gives Apple a portion of the money that Google makes off searches that originate on iPhones. The revenue share figure was 34 percent, "at one point in time," according to Hurst. Google lawyers asked for the figure to be struck from the record. "That percentage just stated, that should be sealed," Google lawyer Robert Van Nest said, according to a transcript of the hearing. "We are talking hypotheticals here. That's not a publicly known number."

Comments

It's not a publicly known number

[fustakrakich]

Therefore it doesn't exist! We're in the world of Harry Potter

Re:$1 billion for staying on a search bar

[fragMasterFlash]

Google built a better mousetrap and the world beat a path to their door.

so NOW google thinks privacy matters?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's rich.

This doesn't strike me as knife twisting

[rsilvergun]

Do you have any idea how valuable that number is to anyone partnering with Google? It's also likely to cause Google some headaches during their next round of negotiations with Apple. I'd want compensation too, and whatever they get probably won't be anywhere near what they lost. The threat of Dragging stuff like this out in the open during a lawsuit is one of the main reasons companies settle out of court.

Re:This doesn't strike me as knife twisting

[Anonymous Coward]

Do you have any idea how valuable all the data Google collects about me (no matter that I try to block them from doing so) is to me? Yet they make it their business to collect it for their own profit, over my objections.

I have ZERO sympathy for Google losing some of their precious privacy, when they have made it their business to destroy the entire concept of privacy for the "little people".

Re:This doesn't strike me as knife twisting

[Anonymous Coward]

There was no privacy exposed. There was a claim in court that had zero facts as true, that was presented. Lets hear how you justify that?

Re:Exactly, there is no public contract.

[fustakrakich]

Get a clue yourself! They are not arguing the facts, just their exposure.