On 05/25/2012 05:20 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > I'm not so sure. A significant chunk of Oracle's $7.4b spent buying Sun was > to obtain James Gosling's patent specifically for the purpose of suing Google > into submission. A few million is a small expense compared to what Oracle > wants to cut out of Google. Again, this looks like a Larry Ellison ego trip. Certainly, many acquisitions are made to obtain a company's patent portfolio (such as Google/Motorola). I'm not exactly sure which of the patents you are referring to, but during the course of the discovery process a number of software patents were disapproved by the USPTO. As I recall, there were only 3 patents remaining by trial time. Whether Oracle will appeal this is still a matter for conjecture.
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