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Google and Oracle File Claim Construction Statements and Fight Again About Discovery

By Pamela Jones et al.

Google and Oracle have each now filed Claim Construction Statements, along with supporting declarations, in the Oracle v. Google patent litigation, and the previous dustup over discovery has broken out once again, with Oracle writing to the judge whining about Google's responses to Oracle's Interrogatories numbers 4-16.

I know. We thought all that was resolved back in February, when they had a hearing on February 9 about both parties' motions to compel, and the parties told the judge they'd worked it out and each side would supplement.

But this is big time litigation, not little people like you and me, so nothing will be smooth and simple or quick. It's been a month, Oracle tells the judge, and Google *still* hasn't provided the information it *promised*. A whole *month*. More than a month. And Oracle sent a letter and emailed and left a voicemail and everything, but Google didn't engage with Oracle or respond. What's a company to do? It is "forced" to seek the judge's "assistance" to make Google do right.

So Judge William Alsup has set another hearing, this one on April 6. He doesn't sound too thrilled, though, and he tells them to meet and confer and try to work it out between themselves.

Full post as published by Groklaw on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).