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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2012 @ 12:25 AM EDT |
In a strange case of legal judo, Oracle seemed to be about to try and twist this
around backwards.
"According to your argument, the patent doesn't even cover a Java VM! But
that's preposterous, because of course it covers a Java VM, because, ...well, it
does! So obviously it must cover the similar Dalvik VM too!"
Google objected, because this trial is about whether Dalvik practices the claims
of the patent, and whether or not it a Java VM practices them is irrelevant.
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I wonder what James Gosling would think of this whole business?
On the one hand, his name is on the '104 patent.
But on the other hand, he thinks software patents are ridiculous, and used to
play that game with his co-workers where they tried to get the goofiest patents
approved.
But back on the one hand, he thinks Google "really slimed Sun" and
should be made to pay somehow.
But on the other hand again, if he read any of the accounts of the testimony
from trial, he has to be cringing. The engineer in him would probably admit
that Dr. August's arguments were correct, and the '104 patent doesn't cover
either Dalvik or a Java VM. If his patent is effectively worthless now, does he
feel relief? Or annoyance? Or I wonder what.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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