Let's kick the weekend off with a discussion on patent litigation! (All parties jump into the air, freeze frame.)
Google scored a legal victory today, as a federal jury has decided that the search giant wasn’t guilty of patent infringement claims made by Oracle.
The two companies have been wrapped up in a legal battle since August 2010, when …
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The jury has just now returned its partial verdict for the first (and perhaps most important) phase of the Oracle v. Google trial: The 12 jurors found Google had infringed on Oracle’s copyrights by its use of structure, sequence, and …
Oracle has asked Judge William Alsup to throw out the entire testimony of Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) in its ongoing (and drama-filled) trial with Google over Android.
Schwartz was Sun’s CEO. Sun owned the Java programming language, which is used heavily …
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Emails from Android’s earliest days showed Google and Sun at a breaking point in their negotiations over Google’s use of the Java programming languag.
Eric Schmidt, formerly Google’s CEO, gave testimony today in his company’s ongoing lawsuit with Oracle over …
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt (pictured) gave testimony today to try to save Android from Oracle’s clutches — and from extinction via stiff per-device licensing fees.
In Oracle’s ongoing lawsuit with Google over Android, Oracle’s attorneys today displayed a slew …
Android is on trial today in San Francisco, and its founder, Googler Andy Rubin, is stepping into the witness stand to save it from a slow death by patent litigation.
The crux of Rubin’s testimony today revolved around the greatest …
A blog post written by former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) has come into play in a tense courtroom this morning.
In Oracle’s ongoing lawsuit against Google, Judge William Alsup has allowed Google to use as evidence a particularly telling …
Taking the witness stand today in an ongoing legal battle royale, Android co-founder Andy Rubin may have given Oracle some heavy artillery in its lawsuit against Google.
Rubin, who began working on building Android in 2003, said in court today …
After months and months of mediation talks, Google and Oracle are heading to a trial over Android, and the jury is selected and ready to go.
Reuters reporter Dan Levine took to Twitter today to give juicy tidbits about the …
After months of tentative talks and rejected offers, Oracle and Google are finally heading to court in a lawsuit that puts the fate of the Android operating system in the balance.
In a memo penned today (which we’ve embedded below), …
Earlier this morning, we published statements from Google chairman Eric Schmidt in which the executive said an acquisition of Motorola Mobility would not constitute an unfair advantage for the phone manufacturer.
Being journalists and generally rational people, we were skeptical, …
The judge in the ongoing Google/Oracle lawsuit over Android and its use of Java has issued a stay. That means the trial will be delayed, and no new date has yet been set.
Sources close to the matter tell us …
This week, three surprising scenarios emerged in initial depositions in the ongoing Google/Oracle lawsuit.
First, a Google engineer admitted he may have copied Sun’s code in his work on Android.
Also, Google documents show the company worked to give Motorola …
The string of Android-related patent lawsuits is heating up with a new complaint brought by Microsoft against Motorola Mobility.
Motorola Mobility is Google’s latest acquisition and maker of some of the most popular and successful Android phones.
Microsoft is alleging …
Google’s announcement this morning that it’s acquiring Motorola may have come as a surprise, but it certainly makes a lot of sense: Google has been wanting to get its hands on a stash of mobile patents for months, and it’s …
In Oracle’s patent lawsuit against Google, the latter company has made a surprising concession: It might be willing to settle.
If Oracle’s claims (that Android violates patents in Oracle’s Java programming language) are found to be valid in a trial, …
The spat between tech giants continues with Oracle updating its lawsuit today, stating Google stole Oracle’s Java code for its Android mobile operating system.
Oracle is suing Google over the use of a third of Android’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) …
