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Oracle v. Google - The Court Questions Oracle's Damages Report
- nextparadigms 15y agoThat doesn't surprise me at all. It almost seemed as if Oracle is asking for so much to make the accusation seem more real, and make people think they are right on this. I suppose that sort of worked for RIAA when they asked for $75 trillion from Limewire. They did win, although they only got $100 million from them. Patent and copyright trolls are quite pathetic.
- 6ren 15y agoAn IP troll is properly a non-practicing entity. Both RIAA and Oracle provide the IP in question. The excessive requests are partly negotiation - in our adversarial system, it's counsels' job, on each side, to put their case as strongly as possible, and the judge (and jury if applicable) to decide. So they ask for as much as they can. The decisions often seem excessive to me - but that's the fault of the judge, jury and law. BTW: given that Google knew they were on dodgey ground when they used Java differently from Sun's licensing, and a lot of money has changed hands based on it, there could be a high pay-out. One guide is when Sun sued Microsoft for breaking compatibility with Java: $20 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#Sun_vs._Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#... (though MS was happy with the outcome, and I think they know they got off lightly). OTOH, when Oracle sued SAP for some dodgey business practices, they won $1.3 billion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#Sun_vs._Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine#... (SAP wasn't happy).