July 23, 2011

Google Judge Tosses Oracle's $6.1 Billion Damage Estimate

July 22, 2011, 8:12 PM EDT





By Karen Gullo


(Updates with judge’s comment in third paragraph.)
July 22 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. won a ruling excluding Oracle Corp.’s $6.1 billion damage estimate in a patent and copyright lawsuit over its use of Java technology in the Android operating system for mobile devices.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled today that a new damage estimate should start as low as $100 million, a figure Google was offered, and rejected, in 2006 to license Java from Sun

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