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Google's Android chief Andy Rubin appears to have conceded a key point in the Oracle-Google lawsuit today. Under oath, he seemed to admit that he once thought Google needed a license from Sun to use Java technology in Android, and that the Java APIs are copyrighted as reported by CNET and ZDNet. That's exactly what Oracle is arguing in its lawsuit. Rubin faced tough questioning from Oracle lawyer David Boies, who led the government's antitrust case against Microsoft in the 1990s.
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Android Inc. founder Andy Rubin took the witness stand Monday in the patent and copyright infringement lawsuit Oracle filed against Google. Rubin answered questions related to e-mails he wrote in 2005 and 2006 on the topic of Java l... Read Post

The judge can order Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google’s Larry Page to talk in closed court all he wants, they’re not going to settle Oracle’s lawsuit over Android and its alleged infringement on Java. Read Post

In August, Oracle filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that its Android software infringes on patents and copyrights related to Java, patents acquired when Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. And today, Google expanded on its ini... Read Post