
To those interested, First, the jury decided that Android hadn't infringed Oracle's patents: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57440235-93/jury-verdict-android-doesnt-infringe-oracles-patents/>; and now the judge has ruled that Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57444928-38/judge-says-37-oracle-apis-are-not-copyrightable/>. Follow the story here: <http://news.cnet.com/2702-1001_3-1507.html>. And find more details at Groklaw: <http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=OracleGoogle>. Joseph.

Nice, Google learnt from Microsoft's faults with their implementation of JAVA and did a very clean job. Martin. On 6/1/12, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
To those interested,
First, the jury decided that Android hadn't infringed Oracle's patents: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57440235-93/jury-verdict-android-doesnt-infringe-oracles-patents/>; and now the judge has ruled that Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57444928-38/judge-says-37-oracle-apis-are-not-copyrightable/>.
Follow the story here: <http://news.cnet.com/2702-1001_3-1507.html>. And find more details at Groklaw: <http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=OracleGoogle>.
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:
To those interested,
First, the jury decided that Android hadn't infringed Oracle's patents: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57440235-93/jury-verdict-android-doesnt-infringe-oracles-patents/>; and now the judge has ruled that Oracle's APIs are not copyrightable: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57444928-38/judge-says-37-oracle-apis-are-not-copyrightable/>.
Follow the story here: <http://news.cnet.com/2702-1001_3-1507.html>. And find more details at Groklaw: <http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=OracleGoogle>.
Joseph.
And now the appeals court has held that Java's APIs are in fact copyrightable: <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/dangerous-ruling-oracle-v-google-federal-circuit-reverses-sensible-lower-court>. Sigh!
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