Florian Mueller listed as the only blogger on the payroll of either Oracle or Google in patent litigation case

Folks, patent litigation is currently one of the more profitable enterprises today, at least if you’re a patent lawyer, one of the plaintiffs, or if your name happens to be Florian Mueller. In an interesting turn of events, Oracle has confirmed Mr. Mueller, a patent blogger who runs FOSS Patents, to have been a paid consultant who had been assisting in looking into “competition issues.”This issue came into prominence in Oracle’s appeal to the negative ruling against the company’s

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