Two Silicon Valley heavyweights are about to reenact the Java wars: this time, in a court room. Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on ...

Google has asked the US Supreme Court to review its nine-year copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of Java APIs in Android. Google is asking the Supreme Court to make a decision on two overruled ...

The Oracle v. Google trial continued on day five with more detailed dissection of Java and APIs and the difference, or similarities, between Android and Java. Google's lawyers framed their questions ...

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Google and Sun Microsystems’ discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its ...

eWEEK IT LEGAL ANALYSIS: In the end, the court determined that Google had only copied nine lines of code into Android from Java and that the APIs were non-copyrightable. Written by eWEEK content and ...

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My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...