Tuesday, May 10

Oracle tells jury: Don’t buy Google’s “fair use excuse”

(credit: Aurich Lawson)

SAN FRANCISCO—"I always have to think when I write this out, because I'm not used to writing billions," Oracle lawyer Peter Bicks told a jury here as he wrote out "3,000,000,000" on a large sheet of paper.

"Three billion mobile phones have been activated with Oracle's property on them," he said. There are 100,000 Android phones being activated each hour, he continued. "$42 billion in revenue through all of those activations. Each with our client's property in them. Valuable computer code."

Bicks' verbal assault was the first volley in the second Oracle v. Google trial, a month-long legal showdown that could end with one of the largest civil verdicts in history.

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