“Damages claims are a highly controversial issue between Oracle and Google, and once again they couldn’t agree. This time they disagreed on possible candidates for the role of a court-appointed expert,” Florian Mueller reports for FOSS Patents. “That comes as little surprise to me.”
Mueller reports, “There’s one thing that probably will surprise many observers of this process: For the question of the contribution Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property rights make to Android’s success, Google wants the court to pick a marketing expert rather than a technical expert — and Oracle disagrees.”
Mueller reports, “A joint letter by the two parties to the court also shows that one of eight candidates they analyzed together fell through because Google objected to a computer scientist: ‘Google objects to one additional potential expert proposed by Oracle, Candidate H, on the ground that he is a technical (computer science) rather than a marketing expert.'”
Mueller reports, “This is Oracle’s take: ‘Oracle is not submitting a declaration, but notes that it disagrees with Google’s position as to the advisability of a marketing expert as compared to a technical expert on the issue of whether the claims to be tried to the jury constitute the basis for demand for Android.'”
Much more in the full article here.
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