Database
giant Oracle faced a major setback in the patent litigation against
Google, with USPTO rejecting some claims of patent (US6192476) which is
one among the several patents that Oracle asserts against Google.
Oracle
sued Google last year, claiming that the Google Android operating
system uses Java Virtual machine technology and it violates a number of
Java patents it acquired along with Sun Microsystems.
Google
on the other hand requested the USPTO to re-examine the Oracle patent
(US6192476) titled as "Controlling access to a resource”. Last week,
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects 17 claims out of 21 claims in
patent (US6192476) and it basically means that the patent is invalid
since many of the claims have been rejected. Oracle now has six months
to appeal for the USPTO's decision. If it fails, then Oracle will
probably be stripped of the patent.
"Patents
were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a
weapon to stop it” opined Google's chief legal officer David Drummond.
Author: Raghu
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