Two Silicon Valley heavyweights are about to reenact the Java wars: this time, in a court room. Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed suit against Google for infringing on ...

eWEEK IT LEGAL ANALYSIS: In the end, the court determined that Google had only copied nine lines of code into Android from Java and that the APIs were non-copyrightable. Written by eWEEK content and ...

Wondering what the lawyers and programmers are talking about in the highest-profile tech trial in years? Here's a guide to the ties between Android and Java -- and the history leading up to the case.

A jury has found that Google infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights in Android but could not decide unanimously if the infringement was protected by “fair use.” The jury’s verdict, delivered Monday after ...