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Intellectual Property

Jul. 27, 2011

Oracle overreached in damages, judge says

U.S. District Judge William Alsup rejected an Oracle expert's damages report late Friday, calling it an "overreach" on the amount Google Inc. should have to pay for infringing seven Java patents in its Android operating system.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

An expert for Oracle Corp. will get a chance to revise his damages report after U.S. District Judge William Alsup rejected it late Friday as an "overreach" on the amount Google Inc. should have to pay for infringing seven Java patents in its Android operating system.

The judge's opinion chided Oracle expert Iain Cockburn's report as "fundamentally flawed" for asserting that Google's entire Android operating system infring...

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