The enduring saga of the Oracle vs. Google Android lawsuit is over, and the winner is the database giant. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled Google's use of Java APIs in its ...

In 2005, Google acquired Android and began the creation of its now-famous Android software platform for mobile devices. Google’s plan was to make Android a free and open platform, enabling software ...

In a closely-watched case, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-2 that Google’s copying of over 11,000 lines of Oracle’s application programming interface (API) code was permissible fair use under ...

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 ...