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by Sean Brunett
Jun 01, 2012
U.S. District Judge William Alsup made a key decision on Thursday in the Google v. Oracle case. He dismissed Oracle's claims that the APIs that Google used were copyrightable.
Just last week, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 23, 2012
The jury in the Oracle v. Google case has found that Android does not infringe on the eight claims concerning two patents (RE38,104 and 6,061,520) Oracle owns. Judge Alsup has dismissed the jury, an...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 07, 2012
You probably heard that a partial decision was made in the Oracle versus Google lawsuit this afternoon. Nobody won, nobody lost (except us end-users, who will have to pay for all this somehow), and ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2011
Carriers, manufacturers who play nice get 'non-contractual time to market advantage'Can't say this surprises us much. Think back to mid-May, when This is my Next's Nilay Patel did a bang-up job explai...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
May 05, 2011
Not to make light of the United States' broken legal system, but it's hard for me to take all these lawsuits over ideas very seriously. Apparently, the Hon. Willam Alsup agrees, and he has throw...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 21, 2011
You might have stumbled across a story or two on the web today about Florian Mueller from FOSSpatents finding 43 more files in the Android source that look to be copied from Sun. I know I did, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 01, 2010
Oracle has amended its lawsuit against Google, and claims that Google is stealing code for use in Android. They also make claim that one-third of the Java APIs for use by application developers ...
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by Sean Brunett
Aug 30, 2010
A couple weeks ago, we reported that Oracle was suing Google over patents dealing with Java used in Android. While the magnitude of this suit is big and there are large implications resting on th...
