Oracle's high-profile lawsuit against Google, in which it claimed that the search giant's Android mobile software infringed both copyrights and patents obtained from Sun Microsystems, is in tatters ...

The structure, sequence, and organization of the 37 Java APIs at question in the Oracle v. Google case are not copyrightable, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court of Northern California said ...

Charles Duan is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, DC . He has authored several amicus curiae briefs in the ...

In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) code when building Android. “Google’s copying of the API ...

The high stakes lawsuit between Oracle and Google is based on claims that Google’s Android infringes Oracle’s copyrights and patents related to Java. This article will attempt to explain the first ...

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The scene of the Oracle-Google trial today was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs. Mark Reinhold, Oracle Java ...

What if you owned the copyright on the French language? Or Swahili? That’s essentially the claim Oracle is making when it says it owns the copyright to the Java language and its associated APIs. If ...

A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a federal judge’s ruling that Oracle’s Java API’s were not protected by copyright. The debacle started when Google copied certain elements—names, declaration ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...