Judge William Alsup in a court hearing Thursday hinted that Oracle would have to scale back the multi-billion dollar damage claims against Google in its patent lawsuit over Android's use of Java. He argued that an attorney making "$700 an hour" had invented the damage amounts, which at their extreme end would hit $6 billion. He was equally frustrated with Oracle's rapidly shrinking claims as to what Google was actually infringing in Android's Java engine as it had started from 123 and was now likely to go below 25.
