Google wins court case against Oracle: Java was not copied

9 years ago - Published in Finance, Fundamental Analysis

After years in court the story of infringement of Java copyrights, opposing Google and Oracle, closed. Indeed, the latter accusing the search engine of violating its copyright in the Android operating system used in smartphones.

The Federal Court of San Francisco has instead ruled in favor of Google, exonerated from the charge, after the testimony of former CEO Eric Schmidt, who managed to convince the absolute correctness of the Mountain View giant judges.

In the opinion of Schmidt, The Android programmers used the Java language just to generate a new code, not to copy. To reinforce the concept has also been that Schmidt had worked at Sun Microsystems, Java patent owner prior to Oracle, which purchased them in 2010.

At this point Google is no longer obliged to pay the maxi damages asked by Oracle, amounted to $ 9 billion, basing on the huge profits generated by Big G with the operating system used in mobile devices (21 billion dollars).