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September 5, 2012 10:34 pm GMT

Oracle Must Pay Google $1 Million in Legal Fees


Oracle's legal woes aren't over yet. On Tuesday a federal judge ordered the company to reimburse Google $1,130,350 in legal costs stemming from the high-stakes copyright battle earlier this year.

Google originally wanted Oracle to fork over more than $4 million to cover the expenses they racked up in the patent trial that Google ended up winning in May.

Oracle attempted to dodge the costs by claiming the trail was "a landmark issue of national importance," but Judge William Alsup disagreed, saying Oracle did not place a heavy emphasis on copyright claims until late in the trial.

"While it is true that a copyright issue presented, copyrightability of APIs, was of great importance to…
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