Economics
Google Objects to Oracle’s $8.8 Billion Claim for Java Trial
- Google faults court-appointed damages expert James Kearl
- Oracle sought to disqualify Kearl last year as too pro-Google
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Google objected to Oracle Corp.’s bid for $8.8 billion in damages in their court battle over the Java programming language that’s set to go to a jury in May.
In a 5 1/2-year-old lawsuit alleging that Google’s Android infringed Oracle’s copyrights for Java software, the database maker is pegging its damages demand on how much the search engine company has earned from its mobile operating system.