Oracle told to pay Google a cool million

Oracle has been told to write a cheque to pay Google more than $1.3
million which is the cost of trolling the search engine for its use of
Java in Android.
Oracle sued Google in August 2010 alleging widespread infringement of
Java-related copyrights and patents in Android and hoped that the
judge would award it $6 billion.
However, Judge William Alsup of US District Court in Northern
California was a programmer and actually knew more than a lot of what
Oracle's lawyers did about coding. The case was thrown out and there
was a small matter of Google's legal costs to work out. Google said it
wasted $4 million in the case, but Alsup thinks that Oracle should pay
$1.13 million of that.
According to Groklaw, Alsup wrote in his court order that Oracle
recovered nothing after nearly two years of litigation and six weeks
of trial. Oracle initially alleged infringement of seven patents and
132 claims.
Each claim ultimately was either dismissed with prejudice or found to
be non-infringed by the jury. Oracle also lost on its primary
copyright claim for Java APIs.
Even as the company's patent allegations disintegrated, Oracle fell
back on an "overreaching" and "somewhat novel" theory of copyright
infringement to bolster its case, Alsup growled. In otherwords Oracle
continued to display trolling behavior even after it was clear it had
lost.
However Google did not get everything because many of the item-line
descriptions seemingly bill for 'intellectual effort' such as
organising, searching, and analysing the discovery documents," Alsup
wrote.
Apparently some of the cash Google wanted was for "meetings" which
everyone knows are a complete waste of time but people like managers
believe are vital.
Oracle is still trying to appeal the court case findings, but it is on
the back foot at the moment.