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In a litigation that has been going on since 2010, a federal jury concluded last Thursday that Google’s Android operating system does not infringe Oracle-owned copyrights because its re-implementation of 37 Java APIs is protected by “fair use.”
As reported by Ars Technica (Google beats Oracle—Android makes “fair use” of Java APIs, written by Joe Mullin), there was only one question on the special verdict form, asking if Google’s use of the Java APIs was a “fair use” under copyright law. The jury unanimously answered “yes,” in Google’s favor. The verdict ends the trial, which began earlier this month. If Oracle had won, the same jury would have gone into a “damages phase” to determine how much Google should pay. Because Google won, the trial is over – for now, at least. Oracle vowed to appeal the decision as it did after the decision in 2012 where Google was found not to have infringed Oracle’s patents, despite inadvertent disclosures of draft emails (where recipients and the words “Attorney Work Product” hadn’t yet been added) in which a Google engineer discussed the need to negotiate terms with Oracle.
Read the complete article at Google Beats Oracle (Again): eDiscovery Trends