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Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 09:54 PM EDT |
That's what it looks like to me, but really, we simply don't
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Authored by: jbb on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 09:56 PM EDT |
Judge: Cleanroom is like creative writing. That theory is out the
window. That's my judgment.
In my very biased opinion this is a
win for Google. Oracle was claiming that Google's cleanroom implementation
violated Oracle's API copyrights because Google was using the ideas from the
APIs to create their implementation. The analogy Oracle used was like suing a
Hollywood company for using your plotline in a movie without paying you. That's
the creative writing analogy the judge just tossed out.
This is
significant because it reduces the worst-case size of the infringement by
several orders of magnitude. The implementation is probably at least 100 times
bigger than the APIs. This is a good sign. As the judge catches on to what is
really going on, he tosses out more of Oracle's case.
I also now like the
fact that he is letting the jury assume that the SSO can be copyrighted. He
even mentioned that it will help if there is an appeal. My apologizes for not
understanding this longer range strategy before.
--- Our job is to
remind ourselves that there are more contexts than the one we’re in now — the
one that we think is reality.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 10:39 PM EDT |
Judge: I do not have in there that the implementation (compiled code)
Judge: Classic case of an attempt to copyright an idea.
Judge: Cleanroom is like creative writing. That theory is out the window. That's
my judgement.
Those three notes, I read as Judge Alsup has gotten an even
better picture in his mind about the API, code, and
implementation, and realizes that the implementation
is compiled code, which can come from a cleanroom.
He now realizes that one of the Oracle arguments is that
they are trying to assert that no one can do clean room
implementations, that they want to assert copyright control
over someones clean room implementation, and that a clean
room implementation is like creative writing, and no one
can prevent someone else from doing creative writing.
As I see it, he shot down one of the Boies boyz gambits.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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