Oracle has drawn a bit of blood in its legal battle with Google over the use of Java in Android, based on the judge’s interpretation of certain language in the patent case.
According to a Reuters report, U.S. District Judge William Alsup pretty much sided with Oracle in a “claim construction” issue in the case. The Patent Hawk web site defines claim construction as “the art of translating patent claim jargon into plain English.”
In the Oracle vs. Google case Alsup addressed terms in three of the seven patents Oracle cited in its action. And in an order issued April 27, of five technical terms at issue in the case, Alsup sided with Oracle’s interpretation on four of them, and wrote his own for another, Reuters reported.
Read more: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Oracle-Scores-Early-Points-in-Java-Suit-over-Google-Android-529921/
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