Oracle: Google owes us $2.6B

From InfoWorld: An Oracle damages expert estimates that Google owes the company $2.6 billion for alleged Java patent violations, according to a court filing made Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

That figure falls in between the "breathtaking" $1.4 billion and $6.1 billion range Google previously cited based on its own interpretation of Oracle expert Iain Cockburn's damages report. Google is seeking to have Cockburn's analysis set aside on grounds it is unreliable.

Oracle sued Google last year, saying its Android mobile operating system violates a number of patents for Java, which Oracle acquired through the purchase of Sun Microsystems. Google has denied any wrongdoing.

"Even the low end of Cockburn's range is over 10 times the amount that Sun Microsystems made each year for the entirety of its Java licensing program and 20 times what Sun made for Java-based mobile licensing," Google attorney Scott Weingaertner said in a letter filed earlier this month.

But in its filing Tuesday, Oracle claimed Google relied on a number of "mischaracterizations," thereby attacking "a straw man -- a poor and inaccurate caricature of Prof. Cockburn's report -- rather than the methodology and analysis Prof. Cockburn actually employs."

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