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The Oracle-Google Mess: A Question - Are Any of the Patents Tied to a Specific Machine?

By Pamela Jones et al.

On the Oracle v. Google litigation announcement, here's something that I don't see anyone else mentioning yet.

On the Oracle patents, in a post-Bilski world, the right question would seem to be:

Are *any* of the asserted Oracle patents tied to a specific machine?

That test wasn't tossed overboard. The Supreme Court said [PDF] it's a helpful test, just not the only one.

Carlo Daffara has the patents Oracle is relying on listed with helpful links here. Groklaw member Celtic_hackr went through them and sees none that are tied to any specific machine. Only look if you are free to do so, but this is a shout out to the lawyers out there to at least investigate this possibility. If it's true, this might turn into one of the most interesting litigations we've ever covered. Yes, Groklaw will cover this litigation soup to nuts.

And may software patents crash into the ocean as an unintended consequence of this patent attack.

I've collected some links to give you context. I put them in News Picks already, but unless I put them in an article, they're hard to find down the road, and now that I've decided Groklaw will cover this litigation, we'll probably want to refer to these resources.

Full post as published by Groklaw on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).