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/ January
2012
Oracle calls an intellectual property audible in lawsuit against Google
Pleasse forgive the football analogy, but in its lawsuit against Google, Oracle has offered to drop its patent charges against Google and rely only on copyright infringement, if the court will hear the copyright complaints quickly.
In a filing made January 17, Oracle lays out three proposals to move the case forward:
- Oracle initially asks that the court "sever and stay" the patent claims and set a trial date on the copyright claims soon, in winter or spring this year. During the time the copyright claims are at trial, Oracle could work on its third attempt at a damages estimate, one of the current holdups in the case. The court could then try the patent charges, writes Nancy Gohring of infoworld.com.
- If the judge doesn't like that idea, Oracle asks the court to dismiss the patent charges without prejudice, thus allowing Oracle to proceed with the copyright claims and potentially file a new patent infringement case in the future, and
- If the court neither stays nor dismisses the patent claims, Oracle would ask for a trial date in the next few months on both the copyright and the patent claims.