Oracle's Android Claims Cut By 98%

tomhudson writes "Groklaw is reporting that Oracle was ordered to reduce its claims against Google from 132 to 3. In a further ruling, the judge has ordered that 129 of those claims will be permanently barred against all past and current products. Additionally, the judge has asked both sides if, in their opinion, after they have reduced the number of claims, a trial is still worth holding, or if the case is now moot."

Re:More extreme than Google's counterproposal?

[Fri13]

Even 1 could be enough for ruling to stop competitive company products being sold.

If companies would be smart and really being sure that other company is abusing their patent, then they would show just the ones what are needed.
Now they throw almost everything what they get even close to that case and judges and assistant specialists are bored to death. Companies believe that the amount of abusive accusitions means the judge (or jury) sees how bad the accused is and it can not be a false.
 

Re:The end is obviosly near

[sosume]

I thought it was just me stuck with that quote ..

Groklaw is stopping.

[leuk_he]

It was announced that groklaw will stop on may 16 [groklaw.net], What site will be the best followup?

Re:Can someone explain in English?

[anyGould]

Here's my understanding of the progression:

• Oracle spams out 132 accusations where they say Google infringed on their seven patents.
• Since one "hit" is a win for Oracle, Google must defend against all 132 accusations. (read: even if they're not infringing in 131 cases, if they're infringing on point #132, it's infringement).
• Thus, Google is forced to spam hundreds of counterarguments.
• The judge, correctly deducing that he would finish his career on this case if he has to preside over this mess, and also correctly deducing that Oracle is spamming, tells Oracle that they have to pick their three best claims. And to stop a repeat performance, he rules that the other 129 are auto-losses.
• Google, once they are told what the three *actual* infringing claims are, gets to choose the eight prior arts that best defend against those three. (It's a bit odd that the number isn't nine - three for each claim - but that's neither here nor there). In balance of Oracle's auto-losses, Google is told that they can't use any other defenses past this point as well.
• The logic is sound to my eyes - if Oracle can't win on their three best cases, odds are that they can't win on the other hundred-plus.

Near as I can see, this is a big win for Google - they've essentially won on 129 points by default, and can concentrate their resources on the remaining three.