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Intellectual Property

Apr. 17, 2012

Oracle and Google’s showdown over Java to start today

Oracle Corp.'s lawsuit claiming that Google Inc. copied its patents and copyrights in order to use the Java programming language in its popular Android operating system will head to a showdown before a San Francisco jury today.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Barring a last-minute settlement, Oracle Corp.'s lawsuit claiming that Google Inc. infringed its patents and copyrights in order to use the Java programming language in its popular Android operating system will head to a showdown before a San Francisco jury today.


The stakes in the intellectual property infringement lawsuit are high, as U.S. District Judge William Alsup acknowledged at the final...

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