Oracle v. Google
- Oracle to pursue longshot claim for copyright damages
- Engineers, experts take the stand as Oracle's patent attack on Google advances
- Oracle, Google lawyers spar over Android's Dalvik VM as patent phase begins
- Google guilty of infringement in Oracle trial; future legal headaches loom
- Oracle-Google jury reaches verdict on all but one Java copyright question
Two more Google engineers took the stand in the Oracle v. Google trial today, offering detailed testimony about how Android's Dalvik "virtual machine" works, while a parallel battle over what to do about the muddled first phase of the trial took place outside the jury's view.
A Pyrrhic copyright victory for Oracle?
Judge William Alsup kicked off the day with comments indicating that Oracle's win in the copyright phase might not amount to much. The jury's verdict was that Google did infringe Oracle's copyright, but it was split on Google's fair use defense.Today, Alsup suggested that Oracle wouldn't be able to get anything for that beyond the statutory damages set by Congress for copyright infringement. Those damages max out at $150,000 per infringed work, a tiny fragment of what Oracle's legal fees must be in this case, which surely stretch into the millions of dollars.
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