July 13, 2011
The California federal judge presiding over Oracle America Inc.'s patent suit against Google Inc. said Tuesday that Google may have known the operating system for its Android smartphone used Java elements covered by Oracle's patents when it launched the product.
July 05, 2011
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week provisionally invalidated one of the patents at the heart of Oracle America Inc.'s suit in California accusing Google Inc.'s Android smartphone operating system of infringing its intellectual property.
June 29, 2011
Oracle America Inc. on Tuesday defended testimony from an expert witness who says Google Inc. would owe $2.6 billion if Oracle prevails in a patent infringement case in California over Google's Android smartphone operating system.
June 16, 2011
An Oracle Corp. unit on Thursday said it was seeking billions of dollars in a patent and copyright suit against Google Inc. in California after the Internet giant filed court documents that redacted the scale of damages being sought.
June 14, 2011
Google Inc. asked a California federal court on Tuesday to exclude royalty calculations compiled by an Oracle America Inc. expert witness in a suit alleging Google lifted code for the Android smartphone operating system from Oracle's Java software.
October 05, 2010
Google Inc. has denied claims brought by an Oracle Corp. unit alleging the search engine giant’s Android software for mobile devices violates Java patents and copyrights and has accused Oracle of taking issue with open-source licensing policies it once backed.