Google Says Oracle Seeks ‘Harassing’ Deposition of Larry Page
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Google Inc. is fighting what it calls Oracle Corp.’s “harassing demand” for a deposition of Chief Executive Officer Larry Page as part of Oracle’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging the Android operating system infringes its Java patents, according to a court filing.
Page “participated in negotiations that took place” between Sun Microsystems and Google regarding a Java license for Android and his testimony is relevant to “the value of the infringement to Google,” Oracle said in a letter jointly filed by the companies yesterday with U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Ryu in San Francisco.