Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API to ...

The structure, sequence, and organization of the 37 Java APIs at question in the Oracle v. Google case are not copyrightable, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court of Northern California said ...

Charles Duan is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, DC . He has authored several amicus curiae briefs in the ...

The high stakes lawsuit between Oracle and Google is based on claims that Google’s Android infringes Oracle’s copyrights and patents related to Java. This article will attempt to explain the first ...

Per a court docket, Oracle Corp. ORCL and Alphabet Inc. GOOGL have failed to reach any settlement over copyright violations of Java APIs (application programming interface) despite discussions ...

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial today was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs. Mark Reinhold, Oracle Java ...

Oracle's high-profile lawsuit against Google, in which it claimed that the search giant's Android mobile software infringed both copyrights and patents obtained from Sun Microsystems, is in tatters ...

Oracle has released a cloud API and submitted part of it to a standards organisation. On Wednesday the company released a general Oracle Cloud API, and submitted a subset of the API — the Oracle Cloud ...

Oracle this week launched its API platform cloud service, a part of the Oracle Cloud platform that delivers "end-to-end capabilities for designing, prototyping, documenting, testing, and managing the ...

In a ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court found that Google could legally use elements of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) code when building Android. “Google’s copying of the API ...