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Oracle Tells Supreme Court Google Copyright Breach Knocked It Out Of Smartphone Market (crn.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

Joseph Tsidulko, writing for CRN: Oracle asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to not review an appellate court's decision finding Google violated Oracle's copyright of the Java platform when building the Android mobile operating system. In that opposition brief, Oracle's attorneys said Google's copyright violation shut Oracle, the Java platform owner, out of the emerging smartphone market, causing incalculable harm to its business. The complex case pitting two Silicon Valley giants against each other has raged on since 2010, and already saw many twists in turns before a circuit court last year reversed a jury decision in favor of Oracle. That prompted Google's appeal to the nation's highest court. Oracle notes Google had previously asked for a writ of certiorari -- the legal term for review by the high court -- in 2015 without success in an earlier phase of the case, and the company argues nothing has changed in the time since.

Oracle believes Google destroyed its hopes of competing as a smartphone platform developer with the Java platform, which enables development and execution of software written in Java, including through APIs that access a vast software library. The lawsuit alleged Google copied those APIs without a proper license. Java was developed at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle acquired in 2010. "Google's theory is that, having invested all those resources to create a program popular with platform developers and app programmers alike, Oracle should be required to let a competitor copy its code so that it can coopt the fan base to create its own best-selling sequel," Oracle's brief states.

4 of 290 comments (clear)

  1. When evil battles evil by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who do I root for?

    Hopefully this will be a very long, messy, and expensive legal battle for both companies.

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    1. Re:When evil battles evil by AmiMoJo · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hopefully this will be a very long, messy, and expensive legal battle for both companies.

      But then the lawyers win, and as terrible as Oracle and Google may be nothing justifies the lawyers winning.

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      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  2. Could you imagine.... by IWantMoreSpamPlease · · Score: 3, Funny

    A smartphone developed by Oracle?
    I've been fortunate enough never to have crossed paths with Oracle's infamous licensing terms, but I could picture it now:

    Every time you used your phone for any purpose whatsoever, you'd have to pay a fee to Oracle.

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    So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
  3. No, I think it was Oracle by bob4u2c · · Score: 1, Funny

    Oracle believes Google destroyed its hopes of competing as a smartphone platform developer with the Java platform,

    The only ones who destroyed their hopes of making a phone people would buy was Oracle. They have done a great job of getting their name out there in the market and setting expectations. The problem of course is that their name and those expectations are not well regarded. So if I were in the market for a phone and went into the store and saw an Oracle one I would definitely pass it up. But then again I was never of the normal, so maybe its just me.