Oracle sues Google over Java?

Posted on Aug 13, 2010 in mobile, Technology | 2 comments

U.S. software giant Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google over the use of Java in Android smartphones.

The Android smartphone operating system infringes Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday.

“In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement,” Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman said in a statement.

The suit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco and seeks a jury trial.

Google could not immediately reached for comment on the lawsuit.

Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems’ Java technology when it bought the company earlier this year. Java is a software environment that allows applications written in Java to run on virtually any computer so long as it has a Java virtual machine installed.

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  • Erik

    I don’t like what Oracle has done with Sun

  • Steve

    It is exactly the same reason Sun sued Microsoft and won. That settlement was $20 million dollars and more important an agreement from Microsoft that it could not alter Java in an incompatible manner. Sun did not want to lose control of Java to Microsoft.