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Intellectual Property

Jun. 22, 2012

Oracle foregoes in Google case

Oracle dropped its statutory damages request so the trial is resolved and the company can pursue its planned appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

By Craig Anderson
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Unless Oracle Corp. is able to get the trial outcome reversed on appeal, Google Inc. will pay no damages at all for copying nine lines of Java source code and eight test files used in its Android operating system. Oracle attorney Michael A. Jacobs, a San Francisco-based partner with Morrison & Foerster LLP, dropped a request Wednesday to get statutory damages for that minor infringement, instead of deferring it, so the trial is re...

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