Concern over the disclosure of trade secrets cropped up again in the pretrial phase of the United States' antitrust case against Oracle, with a federal judge sternly rebuking a Department of Justice ...

For years, customers and investors have turned to the courts in an effort to reform what they believed were rampant abuses in the corporate software industry--often with disappointing results. The ...

A federal judge handed Oracle a key victory Thursday, ruling that the company's potential acquisition of software rival PeopleSoft would pose no threat to competition in the corporate software market.

The judge hearing Oracle’s Java patent lawsuit against Google hopes to get the case wrapped up before the end of November, he said Wednesday, but it won’t help his cause that the U.S. patent office ...

Oracle agreed on Tuesday to bear the costs of a third attempt at estimating damages in its lawsuit against Google, rather than postpone the damages claims. Oracle accepted the terms proposed Friday by ...