Google's Android Doesn't Infringe Oracle Patents, Jury Finds

[CentralDogma]

A jury on Wednesday found that Google's Android operating system did not infringe on Oracle's patents.

Judge William Alsup dismissed the jury, which found unanimously that Google did not infringe the two Oracle patents in question.

The jury's decision wraps up the second phase of a trial between the two tech behemoths. At stake is Oracle's claim that Google copied its Java code without obtaining a license to create the Android mobile operating system.

"Today's jury verdict that Android does not infringe Oracle's patents was a victory not just for Google but the entire Android ecosystem," Google said in a statement.

In the second, just-concluded phase, Oracle claimed that Google infringed on two key sets of Java patents relating to system and memory performance with its Android operating system for smartphones and other mobile devices.

Earlier this month, in the first phase of the trial, jurors ruled that Google infringed upon the overall copyright structure of Oracle's Java software platform in the creation of the Android operating system used in smartphones and other mobile devices. But they were unable to reach a decision on a key claim by Google regarding what the company called its fair use of 37 Oracle-owned Java APIs at issue in the trial.

The trial saw Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison and Google chief executive Larry Page take the stand earlier this month, while Android chief Andy Rubin, former Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz, and Oracle chief financial officer Safra Catz were among the other high-profile names giving testimony in recent weeks.

The verdict document is below, uploaded by Florian Mueller, the well-known patent blogger who authors the FOSS Patents blog.

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[CentralDogma]

Bah, did a search for 'Google' and it didn't pick up.