Oracle v. Google Juror: 'No Steak. Only Parsley'
After sitting through the monthlong legal battle between Google and Oracle, one juror said he kept waiting for steak but all he got was parsley. According to jury foreman Greg Thompson, this unnamed juror was critiquing Oracle's efforts to show that Google had infringed on both its patents and its copyrights in building the Android mobile operating system. Yes, Judge William Alsup is still set to rule on whether Oracle's Java APIs are subject to copyright -- the big question the trial was supposed to answer -- but after the jury returned a partial verdict on Oracle's copyright claims, the question is almost moot. But after the copyright phase of the trial ended with a partial verdict and the jury rejected all of Oracle's patent claims, the trial had merely shown that out of 15 million lines of Android code, Google had infringed with about eight decompiled files and nine lines of copied code. Part of Oracle's argument was that Google had infringed Oracle's copyrights in cloning 37 Java APIs, or application programming interfaces.
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