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Does anyone have a good estimate of what this case cost Oracle and Google, especially in terms of legal fees, and where that money went ultimately?
by javajosh 6y ago
Does anyone have a good estimate of what this case cost Oracle and Google, especially in terms of legal fees, and where that money went ultimately?
- pm90 6y agoThe money goes into lawyers fees. Because of the way this decision went, I’m sure Google considers it a worthy investment and Oracle considers it a temporary setback as it pursues other extortion schemes using Sun’s Patents. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have a specific division of lawyers dedicated to finding novel ways of extorting wealth using Patents; this would likely just be one of the cases they were working on. Come to think of it, from Oracles perspective it was definitely worth a shot, to throw a few millions (if that?) with a chance of winning billions.
- danans 6y ago> worth a shot, to throw a few millions (if that?) Teams of high end lawyers over about a decade? Probably at least 10s of millions.
- upbeat_general 6y agoIt was definitely more than a few millions. Still might have been worth it but lawyers are expensive.
- phonon 6y ago> as it pursues other extortion schemes using Sun’s Patents. They bought Sun 12 years ago...not much time left to pursue that...
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y agoI don't know, but it was money well spent and we should thank them for causing this important point of law to be clarified.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoIt was money well spent for Google. For Oracle, it was money thrown away for nothing but bad PR.