We still don’t know what will happen with Oracle’s accusations that Google violated its patents. Given that Oracle itself doesn’t value the two remaining patents as being worth much, that decision won’t matter much. No, the real question is what will U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup will do with notion that Java’s application programming [...]
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Copyrights, APIs, and Oracle vs Google
May 8th, 2012 · No Comments
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The muddled mess of the Oracle vs. Google trial
May 7th, 2012 · Comments Off
On the surface, it may look like Oracle won the first round of its intellectual property (IP) lawsuit with Google. Look again. No one’s won anything and that includes Oracle. While we wait to see what the jury has to say about the two remaining patents, let’s take a closer look at what the jury [...]
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Court slaps down the use of IP addresses in file-sharing cases
May 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off
The MPAA, RIAA and other copyright holding companies have long used Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to identify users for their lawsuits. They’ll find that people at various IP addresses have used BitTorrent or some other peer-to-peer (P2P) service seem to have downloaded copyrighted video or music and then sic their lawyer attack dogs on them. [...]
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Oracle vs. Google: Dead lawsuit walking
April 30th, 2012 · Comments Off
The Oracle vs. Google lawsuit is ending its first phase. On April 30th, Oracle and Google will make their closing arguments. Then, within a week or two, we should get a verdict from the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, and… it will all begin again when Oracle appeals its inevitable defeat. Oh, it’s [...]
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What Microsoft’s AOL/Netscape patent purchases means
April 11th, 2012 · Comments Off
We now know a little more about the Netscape patents that Microsoft bought from AOL. It’s believed that the patents that Microsoft either bought outright or acquired a license for over a billion bucks include: Patent No. 5657390, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which has since been transformed into Transport Layer Security (TLS). SSL/TLS sets up [...]
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