<div dir="auto">Just like SCO. They claimed that their BPF software had been copied. Common IPR mistake number one! Carefully save all of the metadata _with_the_software_, not with your legal file cabinet which will go in a different direction from the software when your company is acquired or spins off a division. BPF of course stands for Berkeley packet filter.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have had customers who messed up so badly at saving the metadata after a few spin offs and mergers that they became unable to prove that they owned their main product. They literally did not know which pieces belonged to them, and which to other companies. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 8, 2019, 10:30 Pamela Chestek <<a href="mailto:pamela@chesteklegal.com">pamela@chesteklegal.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>If I remember correctly, Oracle did find early on one
function implementation that had indeed been copy pasted
from OpenJDK to Android. But this was so minor (and
obvious) it is not part of the issues decided in higher
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Yes, there was minor copying but it's dropped out of the case.<br>
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<div>Specifically, there wasn't. We had released a new , improved
version of a sorting algorithim to teh jcp and to harmony, they
then claimed that the code was copied from java to android, when
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Interesting, thanks for the clarification.<br>
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