Now this days the un crown emperor of the internet Google facing one to another legal battle with either home country base or aboard.Recent legal battle with Oracle due to Android service.The guardian reported that Google co-founder and chief executive officer(CEO)Larry Page spent nearly an hour in a federal courtroom(Wednesday)deflecting questions about his role in a copyright dispute over some of the technology in his company's Android software for smart phones.
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Page further proclaimed that he would have preferred to enter a business partnership with Sun Microsystems rather than going down their own path.Android is important But not the business pathway says by the Google Incorporation's chief executive officer(CEO) Larry Page.
The lawsuit stems from Google’s use of certain parts of Java in their Android mobile operating system.Oracle,who acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion a few years ago,claims that Google didn’t obtain the necessary licenses to use Java in Android.The search giant says that Oracle can’t copyright certain parts of the open-source programming language.When asked if he could cite another company that had used the free part of Java without licensing,Page replied that he is not an expert on the subject.
Oracle was initially seeking damages as high as $6.1 billion but Google narrowed the claims down from seven to only two patent violations. Oracle is now seeking around $1 billion in total damages from the search giant.In a bit of related news,Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was on the stand the day before where he told the court that his company considered entering the smartphone market but didn’t have the in-house expertise to create their own device.They looked at RIM and Palm as acquisitions but determined the BlackBerry maker was too expensive and Palm wasn’t competitive enough. In hindsight,those decisions likely were the right ones.
Reuters expects the trial to last up to eight weeks under US District Judge William Alsup in the District Court,Northern District of California.Page left the courtroom smiling,but still didn't look completely relaxed.Maybe that's because the judge told him that Oracle would probably call him back to testify before the trial is over.
The lawsuit stems from Google’s use of certain parts of Java in their Android mobile operating system.Oracle,who acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion a few years ago,claims that Google didn’t obtain the necessary licenses to use Java in Android.The search giant says that Oracle can’t copyright certain parts of the open-source programming language.When asked if he could cite another company that had used the free part of Java without licensing,Page replied that he is not an expert on the subject.
Oracle was initially seeking damages as high as $6.1 billion but Google narrowed the claims down from seven to only two patent violations. Oracle is now seeking around $1 billion in total damages from the search giant.In a bit of related news,Oracle CEO Larry Ellison was on the stand the day before where he told the court that his company considered entering the smartphone market but didn’t have the in-house expertise to create their own device.They looked at RIM and Palm as acquisitions but determined the BlackBerry maker was too expensive and Palm wasn’t competitive enough. In hindsight,those decisions likely were the right ones.
Reuters expects the trial to last up to eight weeks under US District Judge William Alsup in the District Court,Northern District of California.Page left the courtroom smiling,but still didn't look completely relaxed.Maybe that's because the judge told him that Oracle would probably call him back to testify before the trial is over.
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