The trial of Android to begin tomorrow
After a long, long time of closed-court sessions, Oracle’s case against the alleged patent-infringing use of Java in Android comes to trial. As I pointed out in February, I believed this to be the single largest threat to Android at one point, but many of Oracle’s patent claims have been thrown out.
While the initial damages demanded by Oracle were a whopping $6.1 billion, but fortunately the cracks in Oracle’s arguments were noted and the claims were brought down to the $110-225 million range (which Google still claims is too much).
If you’d like some good weekend reading to preview the trial, head over to this article on GigaOm.