The Supreme Court justices rule 6-2 that Google used only the amount of Oracle code necessary to transform Java into "a highly creative and innovative tool for a smartphone environment." After 11 ...

The US Supreme Court has sided with Google in the search company's long-running legal fight with Oracle, declaring Android could use APIs from the Oracle-owned Java. In Monday's ruling, based on ...

Google and Oracle have been in legal battle for around a decade about the interoperability of Android’s Java. It’s a battle in which Oracle claimed Google’s use of its Java code for building the ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. The justices finished up the first week of the new term by finally hearing argument in Google v. Oracle, a case that has been ...

Google was dealt a blow Friday in the multibillion dollar lawsuit alleging its Android operating system infringes on intellectual property owned by Oracle. A federal appeals court granted Oracle’s ...

In the upcoming year, the Supreme Court will hear Google’s challenge to the ruling of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that the tech giant’s use of Oracle’s Java application programming interfaces ...

The Supreme Court’s eight justices on Wednesday seemed skeptical of Google’s argument that application programming interfaces (APIs) are not protected by copyright law. The high court was hearing oral ...

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled on Monday that Google did not commit copyright infringement when it used 37 Java APIs in its Android mobile operating system without Oracle's ...

A jury in San Francisco on Thursday cleared Google of copyright infringement in a case brought by Oracle over Google’s use of Java in Android. The jury of eight women and two men took three days of ...

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 ...