Google’s chief Java architect: it’s ‘likely’ I copied Sun code found in Android, ‘I’m sorry’ if I did Google’s “Java guru” took the stand in the infringement trial between Google and Oracle, where he ...

As cloud computing gathers steam, Google gives programmers what they've been asking for by gracing its App Engine with support for Java programs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding ...

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Google's senior vice president of mobile, Andy Rubin, took the stand on Monday afternoon during the ongoing intellectual property trial between Google and Oracle. As the founder of Android, the ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

Oracle has updated its recently filed Google Java lawsuit to include allegations that the search giant directly copied its code in its implementation of Android. The update, filed on Thursday, adds to ...

An intellectual property expert has uncovered 43 instances where it appears that Google copied Java code without permission in the most recent versions of the Android operating system. The discovery ...

The code used to run Java applications on Google's Android operating system is "completely different" from the code that underpins Oracle's Java platform, according to an expert witness called by ...

"Can somebody use another company's property just because it suits them?" That's the question posed by Oracle lawyer Mike Jacobs during the closing arguments in the "copyright phase" of the ongoing ...

In a tersely worded press release, Oracle announced that it was suing Google for patent and copyright infringement over its use of the Java programming language for Android development. Neither the ...

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