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Intellectual Property

May 11, 2016

Federal jury picked to consider Oracle-Google copyright retrial

For the second time in four years, Oracle Corp. will try to persuade a federal jury Tuesday that Alphabet Inc.-owned Google should pay big money for its use of Java computer code in smartphones using the Android mobile operating system.

By Tim O'Connor
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO ? For the second time in four years, Oracle Corp. will try to persuade a federal jury Tuesday that Alphabet Inc.-owned Google should pay big money for its use of Java computer code in smartphones that use the Android mobile operating system.

A federal jury of eight women and two men will hear opening statements Tuesday from lawyers in the copyright infringem...

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