“Google has made a sweeping request that a court throw out the copyright- and patent-infringement lawsuit filed in August by Oracle over Java use in Android, a popular, open-source mobile phone platform created by Google,” Juan Carlos Perez reports for IDG News Service.
“In its response to the lawsuit, filed late Monday, Google denies all seven patent-infringement charges, and, in a separate motion, requests that the single copyright-infringement claim be either dismissed or clarified because Google finds it ‘legally deficient,'” Perez reports. “Google is also making a counterclaim, seeking declaratory judgment of non-infringement and invalidity of the patent-infringement allegations made by Oracle.”
Perez reports, “Oracle has said that Google ‘knowingly, directly and repeatedly’ violated Java programming language intellectual property that Oracle obtained when earlier this year it acquired Sun Microsystems.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Android. The multiple patent infringement offender.
We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs, announcing the lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, March 02, 2010
Does anybody here still miss Voltar and Mendar? I do. It’s just not the same without that loser.
Google is going down. They do not have the right to take the Java language and change pieces of it to make a new piece of proprietary software for commercial use. The JAVA in Android would not pass the open source license test because it does not resemble JAVA. It would have been perfectly fine to build a middleware layer on top of JAVA, but this is not what Google did. It used JAVA as a short cut to build a proprietary operating system.
Google is going down. They do not have the right to take the Java language and change pieces of it to make a new piece of proprietary software for commercial use. The JAVA in Android would not pass the open source license test because it does not resemble JAVA. It would have been perfectly fine to build a middleware layer on top of JAVA, but this is not what Google did. It used JAVA as a short cut to build a proprietary operating system.
Ole Larry will kick Googles ass ……….. Eric Schmuck your days are numbered !!!!
Ole Larry will kick Googles ass ……….. Eric Schmuck your days are numbered !!!!