{"id":15196,"date":"2012-05-24T07:50:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15196"},"modified":"2012-05-24T07:50:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:50:23","slug":"losing-big-to-potentially-win-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/24\/losing-big-to-potentially-win-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Losing big to (potentially) win small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=4355\" target=\"_blank\">ESR<\/a> on what might be the &#8220;beginning of the end&#8221; for patent warfare:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s all over the net today. As I repeatedly predicted, the patent claims in the Oracle-vs.-Java lawsuit over Android have completely fizzled. Oracle\u2019s only shred of hope at this point is that Judge Alsup will rule that APIs can be copyrighted, and given the extent of cluefulness Alsup has displayed (he mentioned in court having done some programming himself) this seems rather unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright damages, if any, will almost certainly be limited to statutory levels. There is no longer a plausible scenario in which Oracle gets a slice of Android\u2019s profits or an injunction against Android devices shipping.<\/p>\n<p>This makes Oracle\u2019s lawsuit a spectacular failure. The $300,000 they might get for statutory damages is nothing compared to the huge amounts of money they\u2019ve sunk into this trial, and they\u2019re not even likely to get that. In effect, Oracle has burned up millions of dollars in lawyers\u2019 fees to look like a laughingstock. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, even if this <em>is<\/em> the beginning of the end, there will be lots of lawyers encouraging their clients to go down this route, as even if it&#8217;s not successful, it can be a very lucrative journey for the lawyers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESR on what might be the &#8220;beginning of the end&#8221; for patent warfare: It\u2019s all over the net today. As I repeatedly predicted, the patent claims in the Oracle-vs.-Java lawsuit over Android have completely fizzled. Oracle\u2019s only shred of hope at this point is that Judge Alsup will rule that APIs can be copyrighted, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[675,174,529,380,92],"class_list":["post-15196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-technology","tag-android","tag-innovation","tag-lawyers","tag-patents","tag-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3X6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15197,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15196\/revisions\/15197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}