Annette Hurst is an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe who represented Oracle in the recent Oracle v. Google trial. This op-ed represents her own views and is not intended to represent those of her client or Ars Technica.
The Oracle v. Google trial concluded yesterday when a jury returned a verdict in Google's favor. The litigation began in 2010, when...
Op-ed: Oracle attorney says Google’s court victory might kill the GPL
How Oracle made its case against Google, in pictures
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Oracle's lawyers have made their final pitch to paint Google as a copyright outlaw, and the decision is now up to a 10-person jury. The jurors are deliberating in a room on the 19th floor of the US Federal Courthouse in San Francisco. Deliberations have gone on for two days now, and the jury will return...
Apache e-mails, shown in court, say Android “ripped off” Oracle IP
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SAN FRANCISCO—Lawyers for Oracle Corporation summoned a hostile witness to the stand today here in federal court, revealing what they surely hope will be a "smoking gun" e-mail in their copyright infringement case against Google.
One big problem: the writer of that e-mail, Stefano Mazzocchi, didn't work for Google at the time. Mazzocchi is one of three people...
Oracle economist: Android stole Java’s “window of opportunity”
Prof. Adam Jaffe's staff photo from Brandeis University. (credit: Brandeis University)
SAN FRANCISCO—An economist hired by Oracle was sworn in and took the stand in federal court today, opining that Google's use of Java APIs in Android shouldn't be considered "fair use."
The testimony by Adam Jaffe wrapped up day eight of the Oracle v. Google trial, a legal dispute that began in...
Oracle CEO Safra Catz: “We did not buy Sun to file this lawsuit”
Oracle CEO Safra Catz, speaking at Oracle OpenWorld in 2011. (credit: KIMIHIRO HOSHINO / AFP / Getty Images.)
SAN FRANCISCO—Oracle CEO Safra Catz took the stand in federal court today as her company makes its case that Google should pay billions of dollars for using 37 Java APIs in its Android operating system.
Oracle, which acquired Java when...
Top programmer describes Android’s nuts and bolts in Oracle v. Google
Programmer Dan Bornstein, who testified in the Oracle v. Google trial on Friday, named Android's "virtual machine" after Dalvik, a small Icelandic fishing village. (credit: Dan Bornstein)
The Oracle v. Google trial rolled into its fifth day on Friday, beginning with videotaped deposition testimony from Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Later in the day, a former Sun...
Oracle will seek a staggering $9.3 billion in 2nd trial against Google
In a second go-round of its copyright lawsuit against Google, Oracle is hoping to land a knockout blow. A damages report filed last week in federal court reveals that the enterprise-software giant will ask for $ 9.3 billion in damages.
In its lawsuit, Oracle argues that Google infringed copyrights related to Java when it used 37 Java API packages to create its Android...
Oracle deprecates the Java browser plugin, prepares for its demise
The much-maligned Java browser plugin, source of so many security flaws over the years, is to be killed off by Oracle. It will not be mourned.
Oracle, which acquired Java as part of its 2010 purchase of Sun Microsystems, has announced that the plugin will be deprecated in the next release of Java, version 9, which is currently available as an early access beta. A...