A juror in Oracle Inc. (ORCL)’s copyright- infringement trial against Google Inc. (GOOG) asked the judge for guidance about not being able to reach a unanimous verdict, raising the possibility the panel is deadlocked.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup, presiding over the trial in San Francisco, sent the 12-member jury home yesterday with orders to return today to “start fresh.” He proposed to Oracle and Google lawyers, without the jury present, that they accept a partial verdict if there are questions the panel agrees on, and said the trial should move into the next phase dealing with patent-infringement claims.
While the juror didn’t say in the note, which came on the third day of deliberations, the panel was deadlocked, Alsup told lawyers “it’s possible” that is “what’s going on.”
The panel is weighing whether Google infringed parts of Oracle’s Java programming language that the search engine provider used to develop the Android operating system for smartphones, now running on 300 million devices.
U.S. District Judge William Alsup, presiding over the trial in San Francisco, sent the 12-member jury home yesterday with orders to return today to “start fresh.” He proposed to Oracle and Google lawyers, without the jury present, that they accept a partial verdict if there are questions the panel agrees on, and said the trial should move into the next phase dealing with patent-infringement claims.
While the juror didn’t say in the note, which came on the third day of deliberations, the panel was deadlocked, Alsup told lawyers “it’s possible” that is “what’s going on.”
The panel is weighing whether Google infringed parts of Oracle’s Java programming language that the search engine provider used to develop the Android operating system for smartphones, now running on 300 million devices.
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