”Google has failed to comply” with a court order that...
"Google has failed to comply” with a court order that the company provide a list of individuals that are paid by Google and have publicly commented on the patent infringement case between the search engine giant and Oracle, the U.S.…
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District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday. “[T]he order was designed to bring to light authors whose statements about the issues in the case might have been influenced by the receipt of money from Google or Oracle,” Judge William Alsup wrote, not individuals who had been paid by the companies specifically to comment publicly on the case (https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/doc1/03519679024). “Google suggests that it has paid so many commenters that it will be impossible to list them all,” Alsup wrote. “Please simply do your best but the impossible is not required. Oracle managed to do it.” He clarified that he wanted a list of “all commenters known by Google to have received payments as consultants, contractors, vendors, or employees ... that can be identified after a reasonably diligent search” by 12 p.m. on Friday. A Google spokesman told us the company will comply with the order. “We asked the court for clarification on the order in our filing last Friday, and that clarification has been provided,” he said in an email.