Oracle v. Google: Mixed Results So Far

May 9th, 2012
Patents/IP
by John Harris

 

Many people in the technology business are watching the IP war between Oracle and Google over copyrights and patents on the use of Sun’s Java APIs in Android. Not only could the outcome of this case affect the ability of Android to spread, it could also affect the manner in which software technologies in general are protected – or not.

On May 7, 2012, a jury in San Francisco found that Google copied some minor portions of the Java code (nine lines, to be exact), but could not reach an agreement on the issue of whether Google’s

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