Re: [The Java Posse] The actual 7 patents involved in the Oracle vs. Google suit.

2010-08-17 Thread Josh Suereth
Remember that patents consist of several claims, some dependent on others. I believe the court can reaffirm or mark invalid each claim individually (as the examiner does when issuing a patent), such that the broad claims are killed but the dependent claims remain. When reading a patent, you you

[The Java Posse] The actual 7 patents involved in the Oracle vs. Google suit.

2010-08-16 Thread Reinier Zwitserloot
If folks would rather keep discussion to the existing threads, let me know. Here's a post by a JRuby engineer about the actual meat of the 7 patents Oracle is suing Google with. He basically concludes that Oracle doesn't have a leg to stand on, but that this doesn't necessarily mean that google

Re: [The Java Posse] The actual 7 patents involved in the Oracle vs. Google suit.

2010-08-16 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/16/10 17:49 , Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: A second one involves mixed mode VMs which is probably the most meaty patent in the set, but its just not something android actually does. A commenter said instead Android 2.2 does mixed mode: JIT has