Oracle’s claims that Google’s Android operating system violates its copyright on 37 Java APIs were dismissed at a San Francisco court on Thursday evening, with Judge William Alsup ruling that Google ...

Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle’s Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...

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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 ...

Oracle wins big in protracted legal fight over use of Java APIs in Android, as appeals court rejects pro-Google ruling. Seth Rosenblatt Former Senior Writer / News Senior writer Seth Rosenblatt ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered under copyright law, wiping out Oracle’s best hope at damages in its infringement case against ...

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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 ...