Re:My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
by gamble on Monday August 16, 2010 @02:04PM
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Remember when NTP sued RIM and won over $400 million? Their patent for sending email over RF seemed pretty silly at the time too. So, while this is a good article on the whole, it may be a bit naive to assume that Oracle can't win the case on a few simple patents. This case appears to be the only reason they bought Sun, and I suspect they're smart enough not to place a $6 billion bet without some very smart lawyers feeling like they've got a good shot at winning.
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Regarding NTP vs. RIM: seems like the NTP patent was, in fact, invalid as will be determined by an ongoing patent office reexamination:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innovation/rim-v-ntp-yet-ag...
Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware the patent was still in question. I don't think it invalidates my point, though. RIM was criticized for waiting too long before settling the case, and thus paying 10x what NTP originally asked for. Waiting for the patent office to invalidate the patent takes long enough that it has plenty of its own risks.
Re:My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
by joe_the_user on Monday August 16, 2010 @03:59PM
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Well, one encouraging thing in Headius' post is the indications that Google has been preparing for this for a while (and we know they have deep pockets).