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Google plans to seek summary judgment on Oracle copyright claim
- btilly 16y agoThe copyright claim always seemed to me to be an afterthought. I'll be much more interested in seeing what happens with the patent claims.
- mbreese 16y agoThis isn't that interesting. Doesn't everyone always seek summary judgement?
- protomyth 16y agoPretty much. I do believe even SCO asked for one.
- dctoedt 16y agoSummary judgments are often tough to get. In federal court (which the Oracle v. Google case is), summary judgment can be granted only when there is no genuine issue of material fact -- in layman's terms, when reasonable people could not differ about any fact that affects the outcome of the case -- and therefore there's no reason for a trial. It would not surprise me if the judge were to hold that reasonable people could indeed differ about the factual basis for Google's proposed motion for summary judgment, and that a trial was therefore necessary.