In a split decision likely to please almost no one, the jury hearing Oracle‘s patent infringement lawsuit against Google found instances of infringement, but couldn’t decide if the company is protected under the “fair use” doctrine. As the Wall Street Journal and others are reporting, they jury found that Google’s Android did in fact use [...]
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The jury in the long-running infringement case between Google and Oracle has ruled that certain pieces of Android APIs were too similar to code used in Oracle’s Java programming tools. But the jury was split on whether or not Google... Read Post
A federal jury in San Francisco has decided that Google didn't infringe on Oracle's patents when the search company developed its popular Android software for mobile devices. 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