Monday’s decision in Google v. Oracle reminds us that occasionally the Supreme Court can take a big case and actually decide it! So many of the intellectual-property cases that reach the justices ...

A new ruling in a court of appeals reverses a 2016 ruling that Google doesn’t owe any money to Oracle for the use of Java code in Android. This case has been going on for nearly a decade, and could ...

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Oracle's nearly eight-year legal battle with Google just won't end. Tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that Google violated Oracle's copyrights when it built a custom version of the Java platform ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz took the stand here today as a witness for the defense, and disputed Oracle's claim that Java APIs were proprietary code from Sun. Google's lawyer, ...

My ZDNet colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is eager to step up to Google’s defense in the company’s legal battle with Oracle. To that end, he has written “A Google Android and Java history lesson” ...

James Gosling has a great deal of his life invested in Java. He is considered the father of the programming language, which was launched by Sun in 1995 and runs on billions of digital devices, and is ...

Before and after versions of Google's internal "software functional requirements" documents released in the Apple vs Samsung trial this week show that prior to Apple's 2007 iPhone debut, Google's ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...