Taking the stand during the ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle over the use of the Java programming language on Google's Android mobile operating system, Jonathan Schwartz -- the former ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Court documents from the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit reveal that in 2005 or 2006, Google was in ambitious ...

Before and after versions of Google's internal "software functional requirements" documents released in the Apple vs Samsung trial this week show that prior to Apple's 2007 iPhone debut, Google's ...

Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun. Google's lawyer, ...

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 ...

Oracle is seeking US$8.8 billion in damages in a long-running copyright lawsuit against Google over its use of Java in Android, court filings show. Oracle sued Google six years ago, claiming the ...

“The existence of other expressive choices to achieve the same functionality is fatal to Google’s merger claim. Because there are many ways to write the code Google chose to copy, the code does not ...

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