“The US Patent and Trademark Office gave Google a rare break late last week in further scaling back Oracle’s limited patent claims in a lawsuit over Android’s code,” Electronista reports.
“A total of 17 of the 21 claims of the patent were rejected, including one claim that Oracle had been leveling against Google,” Electronista reports. “Oracle has until February 20 to challenge the rejection.”
Electronista reports, “The patent rejection is still unlikely to help Google completely avoid some payout, whether damages or a settlement. Oracle is allowed to use Google’s e-mail admitting patent concerns and ma[y] essentially have surefire evidence that Google knew it ought to have paid Sun for a license, and later Oracle, but ignored it.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
If there is one Truth in the US government, it is that corporate interests are easily bought and paid for.
Not to mention Congressmen and Senators.
True, but Oracle has more money and more vindictiveness with which to fight these battles.
“We have the best Congress money can buy.” — Will Rogers
There is still the issue of hundreds of lines of Java code plagiarized to make Android.
Yeah, the spin on that will be interesting.