Oracle Sues Google Over Android Technology
Posted by jonathan at 8:55am EST on 08/13/2010
Oracle is suing Google for its use of Java technology in the Android mobile phone software. Oracle is demanding that Google cease making and distributing Android phones.
Oracle also noted the interlocking history between Google and Java in its complaint, noting that “Google has been aware of Sun’s patent portfolio, including the patents at issue, since the middle of this decade, when Google hired certain former Sun Java engineers.” Google CEO Eric Schmidt led the team that developed Java at Sun prior to becoming CEO of Novell, and later Google in 2001. Urs Hölzle, senior vice president of operations and a Google Fellow, also played a significant role in Java’s development in the 1990s, and apparently other Sun engineers have joined Google in the intervening years.
So despite “Google having knowledge” of the patents, Oracle feels that [Google] still went ahead and infringed on those patents.
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