Patent Wars: Oracle Looking For Android Damages Worth US$1.16 Billion

By: EW News Desk Team   Date: 23 September 2011

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23 September 2011

Oracle Corp has estimated that it suffered US$1.2 billion in damages from Google Inc.’s alleged patent and copyright infringement through Android software, according to a federal court filing in San Francisco on Thursday.

The creators of Java technology broke down the damages into individual components, claiming that its patent damages could be as much as $202 million, its copyright damages could be as much as $136 million, and that Google’s profit from copyright infringement reached $823.9 million.

The lowered damages estimate is one-fifth the amount that Oracle had originally sought for in August 2010 when it made its first claim. Back then, the computer company had sued Google for infringing Java patents that Oracle had acquired when it bough Sun Microsystems Inc.

The amount is also less then a Google statement last week, which “mischaracterized” Oracle’s damage estimate to be $2 billion, including $1.2 billion in "unjust enrichment damages for 2012 alone", said Oracle’s attorney Steve Holtzman in a letter to the District Judge William Alsup.

Alsup was earlier involved on July 22 when he threw out Oracle’s $6.1 billion claim for over-excessiveness. Alsup however, allowed the company a second chance to revise its claim.

Earlier this week, Google Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Oracle CEO Larry Ellison met for two days of settlement discussions before a magistrate judge in San Jose, California. The companies were ordered to contact the judge today to discuss when further discussions will take place and whether Page and Ellison would have to attend, according to a court filing yesterday.

The lawsuit is just one of the many patent and copyright cases that Google is currently facing.

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According to Bloomberg, Oracle “intends to strenuously pursue” an injunction “to resolve a key issue in this case: Whether Google can use Oracle’s intellectual property to create an incompatible clone of Java and thereby undermine Oracle’s and many others’ investments in ‘write once, run anywhere’”.


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