Alsup is a demanding judge — lawyers who try to pull a “dirty trick” may find him to be their worst nightmare. And he’s quirky: He has a standing order that rewards litigants willing to send in novice lawyers to argue big-deal motions.
But of probably greater import for the looming tech showdown is that Alsup has become something of an innovator in patent litigation. In recent years, he’s employed all sorts of methods designed to make what he calls the “bone crushing” parts go more smoothly — at least for him. The Oracle case, in which the company claims Google’s Android mobile operating system violates the Java-related patents and copyrights it acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems Inc., may be Alsup’s boldest experiment yet.
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