Today's [7/26] Case

Only one today:

1. Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc. - 3:10-cv-03561

• Judge William Alsup told the court that Oracle's $6 billion-assessed request in damages is excessive and to recalculate an appropriate amount, with a warning to not propose an outrageous compensation this time around. Oracle accuses Google of infringing Oracle patents in technology used in Google's Andriod smartphone--patents that Oracle obtained when it purchased Sun Microsystems Inc. (now named Oracle America). Judge Alsup recommended a figure of $100 million to Oracle as that is the amount Sun Microsystems had previously offered Google (in 2006) to licence Sun's Java technologies for mobile devices. He suggests this negotiation amount of $100 million--far from the exorbitant $6 billion--is appropriate, justifying his figure with the explanation that, "It seems highly unlikely that Android derives its entire value from a small set of infringing features, given its breadth. The next report must apportion the total value between the specific infringing features versus the rest of Android."
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