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Yet that sort of evidence was allowed to go before a jury and the jury bought it.
The case has been wending through pre-trial motions for 18 months, and was set for jury trial on April 1.
The jury foreman admitted that they "skipped" prior art because "It was bogging us down.
It has won nothing of significance and stands to get very little from the jury on these issues.
The jury found for Oracle in that instance because the jury instructions essentially mandated it.
The problem I see here is that you snapped a picture and posted it in public - being prosecutor, judge, jury and executor in one person.
Because venue was important to the case, the jury was supposed to receive instructions on how to evaluate the validity of the venue.
This town's economy probably runs on lawsuits that trolls bring in and jury members from the town seem to have special incentive to favor plaintiffs almost 4 out of 5 times!
Who made you the jury and executioner here on HN?Whatever you call it, social experiment or whatnot, it seems to have gotten out of hand and the guy got fired.
[Edit #3]: EJ doesn't sound particularly litigious in her post, but consider what happens if she does decide to sue AirBnB and any part of it makes it to a jury.
The jury is basically told that the patent is presumed valid unless they can clearly find compelling evidence to invalidate.
Based on courtroom reporting, the jury paid attention and they asked clarifying questions while deliberating to make sure they understood.
Because the law permits him to do so, he is effectively pre-screening what can come before a jury in the case and he has declared that he will put a tight limit on what is permissible.
The jury hung on the major copyright claims and the judge has yet to rule on the ultimate question whether the 37 Java API packages at issue are even protectible by copyright.
Imagine how the developer community would fare in a lottery system where every API-related claim imaginable were tossed to a jury with prospects for a ****-shoot outcome.
Just imagine if Oracle would have gone to trial with dozens of claims and if they all got tossed to the jury for ultimate determination, including the ultimate decision on whether APIs were copyrightable.
Concerning the broader claims on which the jury hung, it still faces a potent objection from Google that it cannot assert copyright violations based on the 37 API packages owing to defects in how the Java program was registered with the copyright office.
The Federal Circuit's holding by a 3-judge panel had been remarkable and had shocked patent lawyers generally in that the parties before the court had not even raised the issue on appeal as a ground for invalidating the jury's verdict below.
It's no wonder that trials by jury are becoming so vanishingly rare that even the Supreme Court has written that "in todays criminal justice system, the negotiation of a plea bargain, rather than the unfolding of a trial, is almost always the critical point for a defendant.
In this context, under applicable law, Oracle may elect to get statutory damages of $150K for each of the infringements or it may elect to go after what are known as "infringer's profits" - meaning that it would ask the jury to award it damages measured by profits made by Google on account of the infringing acts.
If claims were triable by jury, and if a party elected to have them tried by a jury, this right had to be preserved at all costs and it was regarded as inappropriate for a judge to be too aggressive in attempting to screen and bounce claims at any part of the pretrial stage or to use too much authority at the trial itself to limit the scope of assertable claims.
If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have **** lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.
Jury definitions
a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law
a committee appointed to judge a competition
See also: panel