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Oracle’s Java claims now less than $230 million

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[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]

Oracle has quietly removed the last claim of one of the
patents it has accused Google of violating, and sharply reduced the
amount of damages it estimates Google’s alleged infringement of
Oracle’s Java software.

Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems’ Java technology when it bought
the company in 2010. Instead of licensing Java from Oracle to use
in Android, Google developed a “clean room” version of the Java
virtual machine, Dalvik, for Android instead. Oracle has
charged–through patents and copyrights–that Dalvik deliberately
infringes on Java anyway, despite efforts to build Dalvik from
scratch.


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