Oracle ordered to lower damages claim against Google !!

Oracle has been ordered to lower its multibillion-dollar claim for damages in its patent infringement lawsuit against Google and its Android operating system, court papers show.

Oracle's expert "overreached" in concluding that Google owed up to US$6.1 billion in damages for alleged infringement of Oracle's Java patents, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup said Friday in a sternly written order. The "starting point" for Oracle's damages claim should be $100 million, adjusted up and down for various factors, he said.

Oracle's damages expert "served a report that overreached in multiple ways -- each and every overreach compounding damages ever higher into the billions -- evidently with the goal of seeing how much it could get away with, a 'free bite,' as it were," the judge wrote.

“Please be forewarned: the next bite will be for keeps. If the next and final report fails to measure up in any substantial and unseverable way ... then it may be excluded altogether without leave to try yet again," the judge said.

Oracle declined to comment on the judge's order. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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