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Oracle sues Google over Android

Oracle announced today that it has filed suit against Google for alleged patent and copyright infringement.

The business software giant headed by Larry Ellison (pictured) said  that the suit concerns intellectual property related to the Java  programming language, which Oracle purchased through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.  In a press release, Oracle spokeswoman Karen Tillman said, “In  developing Android, Google knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed  Oracle’s Java-related intellectual property.”

I’ve embedded a copy of Oracle’s complaint below, which includes more  details about the company’s allegations. From the complaint: “Google’s  Android competes with Oracle America’s Java as an operating system  software platform for cellular telephones and other mobile devices. …  Google has been aware of Sun’s patent portfolio, including the patents  at issue, since the middle of this decade, since Google hired certain  former Sun Java engineers.”

A Google spokesman told me that the company hasn’t been served with  the complaint yet, so it can’t comment. There’s a good chance that  Oracle raised the issue with Google before filing suit, so it may be  worth quoting the boilerplate language in Google’s latest earnings report about how Google is involved in legal claims “from time to time,” but  that the company believes “the resolution of our current pending matters  will not have a material adverse effect on our business.”