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Re:Google responds to Oracle's patent lawsuit by btilly on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:01PM (#1762273)
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.

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Re:Google responds to Oracle's patent lawsuit by joshstaiger on Tuesday October 05, 2010 @09:41PM (#1762378)
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.”

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Re:Google responds to Oracle's patent lawsuit by btilly on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @01:05AM (#1762812)
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.

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Re:Google responds to Oracle's patent lawsuit by joshstaiger on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @12:15PM (#1764550)
You’re right. My mistake.
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