[Discuss] Jury finds that Google did not violate any patents.

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 05/25/2012 05:20 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> I'm not so sure.  A significant chunk of Oracle's $7.4b spent buying Sun was to obtain James Gosling's patent specifically for the purpose of suing Google into submission.  A few million is a small expense compared to what Oracle wants to cut out of Google.
Again, this looks like a Larry Ellison ego trip. Certainly, many
acquisitions are made to obtain a company's patent portfolio (such as
Google/Motorola). I'm not exactly sure which of the patents you are
referring to, but during the course of the discovery process a number of
software patents were disapproved by the USPTO. As I recall, there were
only 3 patents remaining by trial time. Whether Oracle will appeal this
is still a matter for conjecture.

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