Judge: I said, you can make your pitch to the jury. This is being
sprung on me... if you want to say to the jury that you're asking for hundreds
of millions of dollars for nine lines of code, you can do that if you want. I'm
not going to blurt out some ruling now. I took back what I said yesterday: if
you want to make out a case for infringer's profits based on nine lines of code
and seven files that aren't even part of the Android system, well, that's an
extremely weak proposition, but I can't tell you it's illegal as a matter of
law. It could be I'd be surprised by some statement in a decision
somewhere.
Google: I don't think you'll be a bit surprised, Your
Honor.
Judge: Well, then you can brief it for me. But in the meantime,
we're going to have phase 3.
If the brief is a strong one, perhaps
the judge will be minded to change his mind. All in the interests of judicial
efficiency and not overburdening the jury, of
course.
/blockquote --- Regards
Ian Al
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