Oracle Sues Google For Infringing Java Patents

Bruce Perens writes "Oracle has brought a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google has infringed patents on the Java platform in Android. Scribd has a copy of the complaint. But there's a patent grant that should allow Google to use Java royalty-free. Has Google failed to meet the terms of the grant?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F10%2F08%2F13%2F0255205%2FOracle-Sues-Google-For-Infringing-Java-Patents" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Oracle+Sues+Google+For+Infringing+Java +Patents%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FbI48xz" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/0255205/Oracle-Sues-Google-For-Infringing-Java-Patents?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Rw6kTcQmvkGa6j6xt8vfB1II2-k/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Rw6kTcQmvkGa6j6xt8vfB1II2-k/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Rw6kTcQmvkGa6j6xt8vfB1II2-k/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/Rw6kTcQmvkGa6j6xt8vfB1II2-k/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/RK6TP_zUFeM" height="1" width="1"/

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