Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Google, charging that its Android phone software infringes on Oracle patents and copyrights related to Java, Oracle said on Thursday.

Oracle’s suit against Google has been brought back to life by a federal appeals court. (Distributed) Apr 29 2019: The Solicitor General is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States. After nine years, we’ll have to get used to calling the case by this new name.) But Oracle appealed the copyright ruling, and the …

Google will put up a fight in response to the patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit that Oracle filed over the use of Java in the Android mobile phone platform.

Google has appealed a lower court ruling reviving the suit in which Oracle has sought at least $8 billion in damages. A court agreed with Google in 2012, permanently removing the patent claims from the case. The 'copyright case of the decade' is a $9 billion copyright infringement suit Oracle filed against the search giant, Google, nearly 10 years ago.


In 2010, Oracle sued Google after the search engine giant allegedly copied a large section of proprietary code from Oracle’s Java platform. The suit extends back nearly a decade. Google is asking for the Supreme Court to hear the The Google vs Oracle case started way back in August 2010 over Google's use of Java software interfaces in the Android phone system.
The underlying lawsuit involved Google’s unlicensed use of Java APIs as part of Android. Google … The Supreme Court will decide software development's future in Google v. Oracle.

Apr 10 2019: Reply of petitioner Google LLC, filed. Oral argument is expected in March 2020, and a decision by June. (One procedural note: because of the Supreme Court’s rules on citing cases, the lawsuit will now be known as Google v. Oracle, since Google asked the Supreme Court to hear the case. Apr 10 2019: DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/26/2019. Google and Oracle continue to tussle over a potentially damaging e-mail in the ongoing lawsuit over alleged Java patent violations in the Android mobile OS.

On November 15, 2019, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments for Google’s long-running copyright lawsuit, Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

Google backs out of JavaOne conference Company cites Oracle's litigation over Android as a lawsuit 'against open source'

A jury cleared Google in 2016, but the U.S. Court of …

Brief of respondent Oracle America, Inc. in opposition filed.