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Actually 2 of them survived until trial (1 still facing further review), but Google was deemed to not be infringing by the jury.
by dminor 14y ago
Actually 2 of them survived until trial (1 still facing further review), but Google was deemed to not be infringing by the jury.
- WildUtah 14y agoThe judge ordered Oracle to limit themselves to their ten best patents for the case and Oracle chose ten. Google then went to the Patent and Trademark Office to try to get those ten struck down. Two out of ten survived review. Eight were declared to have been mistakenly granted. (One of those is still under appeal.) That rate -- eight out of ten of the very best selection of software patents obviously bogus -- is actually low; many more than eight out of ten are bogus on average, even when only considering the best ones. But that was all Google could get from the PTO. Note that your startup can't just go to the PTO like that when attacked with bogus patents -- it takes years and millions of dollars. Then the trial started with two remaining patents. But they were not the two that survived review. One survived review and was in the trial. One is rejected on review but can still be appealed and also was in the trial. And one was rejected on review and then re-accepted on review appeal, but had still been rejected when Oracle requested an acceleration of the trial date so they had to abandon the claims to get their earlier trial date. The other seven remain rejected.