Confrontation related to Android: Google 1-0 Oracle

The harsh confrontation arena between Google and Oracle legal has gradually come to an end after a jury in the viec lam dau khi California court stated that Google did not infringe the rights of Oracle in the construction of the Android OS .  Oracle and Google >> court, Android's future shaky?

 Oracle >> copyright infringement lawsuit against Google on Android After a week of discussion, the jury of 10 of the dispute over intellectual property rights between Google and Oracle have agreed to give final judgment in favor of the Google, said that "the search giant" has not infringe the patent because Oracle is holding.

Immediately after the judgment camera quan sat is made, Google has immediately expressed welcome this decision.

"The judgment of the jury that Android does not violate patents Oracle is a victory, not only for Google but also for the entire system Android," a Google spokesman said.

For its part, Oracle is also immediately issued a statement with the court's ruling: "Oracle has presented overwhelming camera quan sat  evidence at its full, that Google knows that it will cause damage to Java. We intend to continue to protect and preserve the Java platform, aimed at protecting more than 9 million Java developers as well as the Java community. "

Google is there are certain advantages in the dispute with Oracle

However, this was the decision made by the jury, but the final outcome of the case are still waiting for final decisions made by judges.

Judges must still continue to consider adding 37 API (application programming interface) to determine whether camera quan sat Google has violated Oracle's patent or not.

If the judge decides these APIs are not protected by copyright, Oracle will fail to claim compensation for the $ 1 billion that the company that Google has caused because of illegal use of copyright is hold.

Otherwise, if the judge said that there are cases where copyright infringement occurs with the API that Google is using a new jury will be established and an individual case will be started.

Previously, Oracle has conducted sue Google to court from August / 2010, allegedly "giant looking for" violation of its patents in the use of the Java programming language and development tools software.camera quan sat Oracle bought Java from Sun Microsystems from 2010.

The lawsuit was not until April last year was brought to trial. Oracle is expected to require compensation of up to $ 6 billion from this lawsuit because the "damage caused by the Google."

This case is very concerned chong set about technology, because its results will influence very much the future of Android, the popular mobile platform today.

If Oracle win in court, Google will no longer full rights to use Java, this would basically make Android will change completely. If Android can not continue to use Java, which means that all applications will need to be rebuilt from scratch, others do not move "killing action" Android is not as easy to rebuild huge number of applications on Android.