Google’s “Java guru” took the stand in the infringement trial between Google and Oracle, where he admitted that he was “perfectly willing to believe” he may have accessed copyright Sun ...

Structure of the trial Google and Oracle’s legal dispute over whether Google needed a license to reverse engineer Sun’s Java technology for Android goes back more than two years, and ...

Google's Android software infringes on several patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired from Sun earlier this year, Oracle says in suit filed Thursday.

For more than five years, Google sought to license Java or acquire rights to the language before Sun got into the hands of Oracle or IBM.

Despite what you may have heard, there's really no news about how Google handles its Android open-source code development. Still, while Google's path may be both legal and good for business, it's ...

Oracle's lawsuit against Google for Java patent infringement highlights how Android is going to become a big target in court.

In a tersely worded press release, Oracle announced that it was suing Google for patent and copyright infringement over its use of the Java programming language for Android development. Neither ...

The Supreme Court justices rule 6-2 that Google used only the amount of Oracle code necessary to transform Java into "a highly creative and innovative tool for a smartphone environment." ...

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by "fair use." ...

Google previously said that it rejected a $100 million offer from Sun to license Java patents. But it now said the companies were close to agreeing on a lesser figure around a partnership deal to ...

Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL Oracle's history highlights a possible downside to its stance on API copyrights.