Google’s chief Java architect: it’s ‘likely’ I copied Sun code found in Android, ‘I’m sorry’ if I did Google’s “Java guru” took the stand in the infringement trial between Google and Oracle, where he ...

Recently, some people were shocked-shocked I tell you-to discover that Google had looked at Java to help create Android's Dalvik and that Google kept its Android source code to itself and its closest ...

Google has asked the US Supreme Court to review its nine-year copyright dispute with Oracle over the use of Java APIs in Android. Google is asking the Supreme Court to make a decision on two overruled ...

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 ...

Google has expanded its Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Java to support a wider range of large language models (LLMs) through ...

The Oracle v. Google trial continued on day five with more detailed dissection of Java and APIs and the difference, or similarities, between Android and Java. Google's lawyers framed their questions ...

A new ruling in a court of appeals reverses a 2016 ruling that Google doesn’t owe any money to Oracle for the use of Java code in Android. This case has been going on for nearly a decade, and could ...

Google and Sun Microsystems’ discussions to co-develop Android ultimately broke down because of disagreements over control of the platform, Google wrote in a trial brief late last week related to its ...

A San Francisco jury has returned verdicts on three of four key questions over copyright issues in the high-profile courtroom trial between Oracle and Google. Neither company won a decisive victory, ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement ...

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.” The jury’s verdict, delivered Monday after ...

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. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding ...