IANAL, but I don't think "the old management didn't have the stones to do this" is an adequate defense against Google's complaint that Oracle is engaged in extortion by waiting so long. I believe the core US laws here focus around the requirement to defend a patent. Change of ownership doesn't void the duty to do so. But, you know, not a lawyer, so, we'll have to wait on the cavalry to explain in more detail.
On Aug 14, 9:21 am, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8/14/10 01:01 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > > > fee it wanted, then it's extortion and will be thrown out. By not > > defending the patent for 5 years and having shown rather clearly > > that at least sun's tech staff was well aware of how android works > > internally, it would seem to me that making this case is trivial!). > > I think that Oracle lawyers can easily assert that 1) enforcing a > patent is a matter of corporate politics and one management might be > not interested, a new management might change idea; 2) Sun was too > weak to risk the complaint, while now the thing has changed. In other > words, the fact that the management changed is enough for justify that > the complaint has been filed only now. > > For the rest, it's too early to understand what the target is. We've > put reasonable scenarios, I'm waiting for the next move. > > Ah, probably it's not secondary to recall that, in the meantime, Apple > has sued HTC (hence Google), and Microsoft sued Google too. Probably > we should think of those legal actions in the wide. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxmQ/kACgkQeDweFqgUGxeO3QCfUjmoNDQp5x7x5nM2MweoMm9M > u1UAoLGQywiY/SHfUShjs46tAYo1ZATj > =arIp > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en.
