“Android, which was first released in late 2008, is used by several computer manufacturers as the operating system that runs smartphones and other computing devices,” Bailey and Swift report. “Oracle’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern California, accuses Google of infringing on patents and copyrights that Oracle acquired when it bought Sun Microsystems earlier this year.”
Bailey and Swift report, “Google had no immediate comment.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Now Steve’s got good ol’ Crazy Larry involved – and, trust us, the more Crazy Larry, the better! Eric T. Mole had better scurry back into his hole before Larry lands a fighter jet on his ass.
Oracle’s press release, verbatim:
Aug 12, 2010 19:15 ET
Oracle Files Complaint Against Google for Patent and Copyright Infringement
REDWOOD SHORES, CA–(Marketwire – August 12, 2010) – Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today filed a complaint for patent and copyright infringement against Google, Inc.
“In developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for their infringement,” said Oracle spokesperson Karen Tillman.
About Oracle
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company. For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.
Trademark
Oracle and Java are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
MacDailyNews Take: We’ve been pushing the state-of-the-art in every facet of design… We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this and we’ve filed for over 200 patents for all of the inventions in iPhone. And we intend to protect them. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiling iPhone, January 9, 2007 (at 6:13 in the linked video)
This should be interesting…to say the least
And so it starts. Old buddies Larry and Steve take aim at Larry and Sergei. This should be fun.
Oh No! Google shadows Microsoft?
Did Google “check” copyright infringement in the checklist by accident when planning android? Maybe OR maybe not.
This should be a real yawner.
Sorry Oracle, take a number please.
I told you, nothing in this life is free…… Now you android users, are going to pay the price that you didn’t pay when you paid for your iPhone wanna be.
Hey Larry, u r the Man.!!!!
If Google didn’t copy it it or ripped it off somewhere, it would not be free. That’s how Google operates.
G4Dualie – A yawner? I disagree. This is huge. Java is Android’s app environment. Android without Java is like iPhone without Cocoa. Google was crazy to base their platform on Java without a license agreement with Sun.
The very LEAST they should have done was Google it.
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Eric Von mole, your pink cowboy hat will be brown by the time Ellison gets done with you and he’s just started…
I would like to google the oracle on the outcome of this one.
Lame?
yep
Get me some popcorn and a six pack. This is going to be fun to watch.
First Schmidt locks lips with Verizon to end net neutrality and now he’s got Crazy Larry gunning for him. Not one of Schmidt’s best weeks I’d say.
What will make this a doozy is if Apple slaps GOOPLE a big fat lawsuit also. Double WHAMMY!
Do Know Evil.
*grabs the popcorn* This melodrama should be good.
Ooops, Eric. Apple’s lawyers are going to sink your hardware, while Oracle’s do the same to your OS. See, this is why microsoft can’t steal anymore.
But Android is OPEN and FREE and not encumbered by copyright or patent law !
Mr. google CEO said something like, “200,000 android devices sold every…”
No doubt ORCL knew how many they were selling. But hey, saying that it’s a Larry and Steve thing is dumb. This is about Oracle using Sun’s patents. AND getting a something out of every App and OS copy…
This doesn’t change anything Apple is doing… All they have to do is flip the switch on for their iPhone on VZ and T-Mobile… and bam! at least double the marketshare…
How ironic. Just got a Flash script warning on this page.
While I’m no patent attorney, it seems to me that when you use someone for patent infridgement, they are entitled to royalties. The problem is, Google makes NO money on selling their OS, so what can Oracle sue for? Certainly not a monetary reward.
Just a thought…
Whatever happened to “Do no evil”?
Oh, yeah, that went out the door when Eric T Mole stayed on the Apple BOD in order to gain competitive info. How in the heck that isn’t an actionable offense, I’ll never know.
I hate Google
Lots of the numbers gartner cites as android are nothing more than feature phones. They stamp android on them and yet are not smart phones but fall into the category of feature phones. These phones make little or no money for the manufacturer and will be a big loss if they had to pay royalty to oracle
Hmm. Comparing this to the Microsoft raping of Java via J++ and having Sun sue their ass off, is inevitable.
However, this is actually more like AT&T suing Berkley University for BSD UNIX (which AT&T lost in 1994) OR Microsoft (via their puppet, SCO Group) suing Novell over their Linux project (which SCO lost in June, 2010).
Good luck with that.
Kinda late, isn’t it Larry?? and Steve made that big statement
and there are tons of iPhone look-alikes and act-alikes out there…has anything really been defended at all??