Judge Alsup ruled that the 37 application programming interfaces (APIs) that Oracle had claimed Google infringed were not copyrightable. The court order followed a trial between to two companies that ended in a Google victory in May, which Oracle...
Earlier this week, the jury in the case ruled that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright over a few lines of code used in the development of Android. The trial, which has already been running for nearly four weeks, was originally divided into...
Ahead of an upcoming trial in April over claims that Google's Android operating system has infringed on Java patents, Google has offered to pay Oracle $3 million plus a portion of its Android platform revenue in an attempt to reach a settlement...
A Texas jury recently ruled that Google infringed on an information storage and retrieval patent. Florian Mueller suggests that there are likely "hundreds of thousands" of Android apps that are likely to somehow rely on the infringed patent claims.
While the Court does note that the onus of keeping copyright from being infringed falls upon the owner of the technology used to take text from the newspapers in question, this seems like an omission worth noting.
Rates Technology says that two patents they hold (awarded in 1995, 2001) for minimizing the cost of long distance calls using the Internet are being infringed upon by Google Talk. Rates Technology is asking for a jury trial along with:
We are pleased to learn the jury has determined that FindWhat infringed on all of the patent claims that were before the jury and at issue in the trial. We look forward to resolving all remaining issues in the post-trial briefing that has been...
Overture filed a lawsuit against Google last month, claiming that Google has infringed on its patents that apply to bid-for-placement search ranking and for account management tools. The US District Court in Massachusetts determined that Northern...
Kelly complained to AltaVista regarding its new photo search service, alleging that it infringed upon his copyright and trademarks. Search Engine Watch Forum http://trial.internet.com:8000/forums/Ultimate.cgi
