But the full document is unintentionally hilarious.

The various invocations of

Google is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the allegations of paragraph _, and therefore denies them.

amused me greatly when I looked at what was denied. Similarly there was a lot of Google denies any remaining allegations of paragraph _. when every claim of that paragraph had been admitted.

Not a lawyer, but knowingly infringing on a patent opens one to treble damages: http://www.patent-infringement.org/recover.html

So maybe it’s legal speak for “Regardless of what the patents say, we weren’t aware of them.”

You clearly did not compare the documents. Google denied statements such as that Oracle is a software company, is headquartered where it is headquartered, and denied that Oracle purchased Sun and owns the copyrights to Java.

Worry about triple damages was not the reason.

You’re right. My mistake.

And it's a response to this full document:

http://regmedia.co.uk/2010/08/13/oracle_complaint_against_go...