In early 2000, JavaWorld published a two-part series I wrote entitled “The Business Case for Java: A Primer for Geeks,” in which I listed the then distinguishing characteristics of both the ...

Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave the judge overseeing their Java patent dispute a tutorial on Wednesday that underscored the complexity of the case between the two companies. Judge William Alsup of ...

Eastman Kodak has won "="" link-shortcode-text="a controversial lawsuit"> in which it claimed Sun Microsystems had infringed several of its patents with its Java programming language. A US federal ...

The ruling that APIs can be copyrighted could make it a lot harder to take advantage of APIs with a direct license With Oracle’s surprise win in federal court today over its Java intellectual property ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Oracle ...

WASHINGTON--Microsoft went on the offensive Friday in the antitrust case brought against it by Sun Microsystems, accusing its bitter rival of violating California law through "unfair competition." In ...

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The legal war between Oracle and Google has been rather muted for the last several months, but there could be a major new twist in the case. Reuters has reported that legal representatives for ...