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Oracle v. Google
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In the Oracle v. Google lawsuit, Judge William Alsup has been making it clear that Oracle is unlikely to get much money out of its copyright win, since the jury is split over the issue of fair use. Nevertheless, today Oracle's legal team pushed forward with a demand for damages based on the one clear win it had—the jury's verdict on a smaller question, finding that Google infringed copyright in a nine-line function called
rangeCheck().Oracle lawyer David Boies made it clear in court today that his client wants to pursue a claim for "infringer's profits" over
rangeCheck(). He persisted despite the fact that Alsup had earlier shut down the idea of pursuing anything more than statutory damages, which would be capped at $150,000. "We think under the law we have a claim for infringer's profits," said Boies. "We're not asking for all their profits, we're not asking for most of their profits. We may not even be asking for much of their profits." Still, Boies argued that under the law, the burden of proof was on Google to show that it should not have to pay a portion of its profits to Oracle.Alsup's reaction was skeptical but he promised Boies he'd get to take his shot.
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