Oracle vs Google: PTO declares 5th Oracle patent invalid

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now only one of the 7 patents brought into the battle by Oracle remains - all others have been declared invalid by the PTO

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now only one of the patents brought into the battle by Oracle against Android remains valid - all others have been declared invalid by the PTO (and one removed by Oracle)

if there's ever a case that demonstrates the shoddiness software patents that are granted these days it's this one.

Only 1 of 10 original patents in the suit remain as valid! (and I'd bet a dollar that one will go away as well)

If that's extended out to all granted patents, fully 90% of software patents might be invalid.

Its worse than that. These are supposed to be Oracle's 'good' patents.

Imagine how bad the patents that they didn't even bother suing over are!

> (and I'd bet a dollar that one will go away as well)

I think it's probably not going to, but, it's a patent that Google can engineer around without a difficulty.

can you elaborate? which one?

now declared invalid: RE38,104 remaining patent: 6,061,520 removed patent: 6,192,476

Oracles original complaint: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35811761/Oracle-s-complaint-agains...

(original patent pool: 6,125,447, 6,192,476, 5,966,702, 7,426,720, RE38,104, 6,910,205 and 6,061,520)

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