One can't tell a whole lot from the patent titles, but I authored (on behalf of IBM) several patents covering similar subjects. Generally to get a patent in such areas the scope of the invention needs to be fairly narrow, since there's such a large amount of prior art.
It'll keep the lawyers employed. On Aug 12, 8:37 pm, Evan Cummings <[email protected]> wrote: > The complaint document is an interesting read: > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/35810897/Oracle-Google-Complaint > > "As a direct and proximate result of Google’s direct and indirect > willful copyright > infringement, Oracle America has suffered, and will continue to > suffer, monetary loss to its > business, reputation, and goodwill.Oracle America is entitled to > recover from Google, in > amounts to be determined at trial, the damages sustained and will > sustain, and any gains, profits, > and advantages obtained by Google as a result of Google’s acts of > infringement and Google’s use > and publication of the copied materials." > > Gotta love patent warfare between tech giants. I don't think there is > any reason to be concerned at the moment, should be interesting to see > how this turns out (if they didn't settle that would suggest they feel > they have a pretty good case, right?) > > On Aug 12, 8:52 pm, Frank Weiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > It hit the press today. Rumored that Google refused to settle. I have > > no idea where this is headed, but I'll continue to develop for > > Android. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
