Oracle faced a stronger than expected challenge convincing the jury in the Android case that Google had willfully infringed Java patents, post-trial comments have revealed, with most leaning heavily toward the search company throughout the case. Despite earlier speculation that the 12-strong jury was looking negatively on Google’s arguments, jury foreman Greg Thompson told Ars Technica that in fact it was a 9-3 split in Google’s favor on copyright issues. There are also suggestions that Oracle’s stance left some on the jury feeling the company’s strategies weren’t in the public’s best interest.
“The more tech savvy a person is,” Thompson said, “the more difficult it might be to convince them of something that would limit [technology] … and future expansion of the common good.”
That was a possibility that had already worried many outside of the case. ”Treating APIs as copyrightable would have a profound negative impact on interoperability, and, therefore, innovation” Julie Samuels, staff attorney at the Electronics Frontier Foundation said earlier this month, with suggestions that a precedent jury decision might hamstring future developments. Read More
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