Oracle Corp.’s general counsel is supervising the company’s closely watched patent infringement suit against Google Inc. But Dorian Daley will have to do it with one eye shut.

A federal magistrate has denied Daley’s request to be one of five in-house lawyers allowed to view discovery responses submitted by Google under a negotiated protective order. Oracle filed a suit in 2010 that claims Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices infringes Java-related patents and copyrights Oracle acquired when it purchased Sun Microsystems Inc. last year. Google says Oracle is seeking “broad discovery on virtually every competitive aspect of Google’s business.”

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