Google beats Oracle on Java APIs copyright, defeating $9 billion claim
San Francisco: Google won a jury verdict that kills Oracle Corp.’s claim to a $9 billion slice of the search giant’s Android phone business and may give comfort to programmers who write applications that run across different platforms without a licence. A federal appeals court’s 2014 ruling that the Java APIs are eligible for copyright protection may still have a “chilling effect” on software companies, because few have the resources to mount a defense as vigorous as Google did, said Tyler Ochoa, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law who has followed the case closely since it was filed in 2010. “We strongly believe that Google developed Android by illegally copying core Java technology to rush into the mobile device market,” Oracle General Counsel Dorian Daley said in a statement. Google’s message was that “Oracle shouldn’t ‘own’ programmers simply because they had taken the time to learn Java,” Ochoa said. Android ecosystem “Today’s verdict that Android makes fair use of Java APIs represents a win for the Android ecosystem, for the Java programming community, and for software developers who rely on open and free programming languages to build innovative consumer products,” Google said in an e-mailed statement.
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