Google's won another major victory, today, in the courtrooms where Oracle are suing them for patent and copyright infringement due to Java's use in Android. Oracle lost the patent phase of the case, and they thought they'd initially get a break on the copyright phase as they were able to get the jury to agree that Google infringed on the structure, sequence, and organization of their Java APIs. Of the 37 APIs that Google were accused of “stealing,” Judge William Alsup found that 97% were written by Google, and 3% were freely replicable under a doctrine of merger.
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See also:
dailygadgets, Judge: Google did not infringe on SSO of Sun/Oracle's Java
