Structure of the trial Google and Oracle’s legal dispute over whether Google needed a license to reverse engineer Sun’s Java technology for Android goes back more than two years, and ...

Google CEO Larry Page continued his testimony on Wednesday in the trial over whether his company violated Oracle's Java patents and copyrights. Like Oracle CEO Larry Ellison attempted to do with his ...

The trial is being conducted in three phases, and the jury was set to continue its deliberations on Wednesday regarding Oracle’s copyright claims, which involve a number of Java APIs ...

The Java APIs that Google used to develop Android were protected by copyright law, a court has ruled -- now Google has defend its moves as "fair use" or potentially pay Oracle billions.

Oracle and Google reached "an irreconcilable impasse" in settlement talks over Oracle's claims that Google violated Java patents and copyrights in developing Android. Read the whole story ...