The last week saw as set back of sorts for Oracle, as the US patent analysts rejected 17 claims of the 21 infringements claimed by Oracle on one of the seven infringement claims it had filed against Google. However, there are further 122 claims to wade through.
Why the set back on US Patent 6.912.476
The basis for rejecting the claim was that, these 17 were already established or known techniques. The patent in question is the US Patent 6192476 called ‘Controlling Access To A Resource’. It involves mechanisms to regulate Java program codes accessing hardware, services and interfaces. However, The United States Patent and Trademark Office-USPTO finds that many of the patents mentioned are already covered by prior art.
To prove its point, the USPTO has submitted a patent that is five years older than Oracle’s date of filing. It is called ‘The Multics System’ and written by Elliot I.Organick.
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