Oracle has the number of lawsuits in the patentzaak against Google toned down by completed. n patentclaim to pull back. Therefore, the number of infringements which Google is accused, further shrunk. Also, the claim is gone down.
In the lawsuit Oracle in August 2010 against Google began, accused Oracle of the zoekreus that these seven patents violates the Java-based Dalvik Virtual Machine, which serves as the basis of Googles Android operating system. The USPTO stated, however, after examination of the claims that Google may be only one patent. Another patentclaim is still under investigation, but all other claims were dismissed.
Oracle can be even higher appeal against this decision, but the company has decided to one patentclaim, submitted as a ‘claim 14’, to withdraw. This is the number of patents which Google would infringe the dropped to five, reports the H Open.
In response to the third expertrapport’ that Oracle has drawn up for the alleged amount of damages to determine, Google has hinted that the calculated amount many times lower than the first claim of 2.6 billion dollars. In the third report would be the amount of damage that Oracle will require between 129 and 169 million dollars, after the court had ruled that the first claim of Oracle unrealistically high. Nevertheless, Google that the report still filled with inaccuracies.