Judge urges more deliberations in Android case

A judge urged jurors to resume deliberating Oracle Corp’s copyright claims against Google over the Android mobile platform, after they indicated there was unanimous agreement on all but one of the questions they must decide. “It’s worth you going home over weekend,” District Judge William Alsup told the jurors, adding that deliberations in the federal court in San Francisco should continue next week. Google says it does not violate Oracle’s patents and that Oracle cannot copyright certain parts of Java, an “open-source,” or publicly available, software language. If the jury cannot agree on one question, Alsup has indicated he would allow them to deliver a partial verdict and move on to hear evidence in the patent phase of the case.