Clarification on a few points

Posted Feb 1, 2012 21:57 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Clarification on a few points by Duncan
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Whoops - I missed your comment about *if* Oracle choose the patent challenge route.

But, as you'll see from my other post, they DID choose the patent challenge route. And it seems the nuke detonated on launch ...

I can't remember all the figures, but they tried to sue over about 250 claims. The Judge said "that's too much, whittle it down to your best 15" or something like that. Google returned a major broadside and it seems out of those 250, Oracle is unlikely to find 15, or whatever it was the Judge said, to bring to trial! They might even get to trial only to find they don't have any valid patents to claim!

Cheers,
Wol