They recently sued Google claiming that the Dalvic VM (heavily used by Android phones) was infringing their patents and contained copied code, as well as trying a rather unusual step of claiming that you could copyright an API (not the implementaion, just the API: the function names and arguments)
They lost on almost all counts, except for about 6 lines of code which were copied by an external company and removed once Google were notified they were there.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531173633275
This case was widely taken as a move to either kill Android or simply to profit from it by licensing patents. However, since part of the appeal of Android is that it's free, forcing a fee for each android installation would probably have killed it.
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They recently sued Google claiming that the Dalvic VM (heavily used by Android phones) was infringing their patents and contained copied code, as well as trying a rather unusual step of claiming that you could copyright an API (not the implementaion, just the API: the function names and arguments) They lost on almost all counts, except for about 6 lines of code which were copied by an external company and removed once Google were notified they were there. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120531173633275 This case was widely taken as a move to either kill Android or simply to profit from it by licensing patents. However, since part of the appeal of Android is that it's free, forcing a fee for each android installation would probably have killed it.