Trial Java / Android: Google was inspired by Java but ...

After the first stage of the trial which will determine if Google used without the necessary licenses (and license fees that go with it) portions of Java technology in its mobile platform Android, the verdict does not really allowed to decide on the merits.

Jurors did not reach a consensus on the issue of right of use. They found many Android drew heavily from elements of Java, particularly in its internal organization, but they have not decided on the issue of "fair use" as to whether Google has knowingly violates the intellectual property relating Java, to save development time while creating the platform was in a stalemate, or if the group thought to be within its rights with respect to the patent holder at the time, namely Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle in 2010).

If the conclusions of this first phase of the trial are favorable to Oracle, especially since Google's inspiration has spread to some parts of Java code, they will not help much to support his request in damages. The editor can at best seek financial compensation (which will not be high) but not a percentage of profits on the Android platform, Google is also including any explanation for its mobile OS that brought nothing to the time of the facts.

The Wall Street Journal suggests that compensation in such cases could not spend 100,000 dollars, far away hundreds of millions of dollars demanded by Oracle in this case. The failure to obtain a fair verdict also cases Google will be able to rely on this indecision to refute the other charges of Oracle, including the breach itself of certain patents, which is now under review .

Oracle still hopes to get a clear victory on Google but it will take much more than the recovery in some parts of Java code to support his accusation and get something other than a symbolic compensation.

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