When a Java program is compiled, it is not translated to executable machine code but rather, the javac compiler yields Java bytecode, which serves as an intermediate format that describes a ...

Android is built largely upon Java, which was developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s and is now property of Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010. Litigation Is All About Fair Use of APIs ...

At the onset of the trail, Oracle claimed that Google’s use of Java code entitled them to an $8.8 billion slice of the Android business and $475 million in lost potential licensing revenue.

Google emerged victorious in court this afternoon, after a jury found that its use of Java APIs in Android doesn't infringe on Oracle's copyrights. The two companies have been battling it out over ...

Google was accused of copying roughly 11,500 lines of code from Java SE's API for use in its development of Android as a mobile platform. Oracle believed this was an infringement of its copyright ...

The case concerned approximately 12,000 lines of code that Google used to build the Android operating system copied from Java developed by Sun Microsystems, which Oracle acquired in 2010.