Google Triumphs Over Oracle in Patent Suit

The jury verdict is in. They found no infringement of the patents. Google has a statement already: Today’s jury verdict that Android does not infringe Oracle’s patents was a victory not just for Google but the entire Android ecosystem.

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kilik64 said:

Today’s jury verdict that Android does not infringe Oracle’s patents was a victory not just for Google but the entire sea of lawyers we used to defend this case...

Shoulda been a lawyer. Anyone going to law school needs to specialize in patent law.

Seriously though, pretty big win for el Goog

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Judge: We heard the testimony of Mr. Bloch. I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?

Oracle: I want to come back to rangeCheck.

Judge: rangeCheck! All it does is make sure the numbers you're inputting are within a range, and gives them some sort of exceptional treatment. That witness, when he said a high school student could do it--

Oracle: I'm not an expert on Java -- this is my second case on Java, but I'm not an expert, and I probably couldn't program that in six months. Let me come back to rangeCheck after I've reminded the Court about the test files.

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Finally, the line:

System.out.println("Hello World!");
uses the System class from the core library to print the "Hello World!" message to standard output. Portions of this library (also known as the "Application Programming Interface", or "API") will be discussed throughout the remainder of the tutorial.

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ballistic90 said:

Patent law has surprisingly strict requirements to get into, actually. My wife mentioned it requires at least a science degree and some specific tests to get ceritifed.

Many lawyers are liberal arts majors, because most law practice requires a lot of research (eg. History degree) or writing skills (eg. English degree).

Still, looks to be very lucrative.

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Aluisious said:

Fuck you, Larry.

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