Boston, MA 05/20/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) on May 9, 2014 won a legal battle against Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Oracle won this case in the U.S. appeals court, which permitted the company to have copyright of the parts of Java programming language which was also used by Google for designing the operating system of its Android smartphone.
The Case
The copyright-involving case was settled in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Washington. The case filed by the CEO of Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Larry Ellison as well as CEO of Google, Larry Page was said to be a high-profile fight between the two tech-giants. The case was a testimony of how technological tycoons can fight for the protection of their intellectual property.
Background of the case
The operating system of Android by Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is said to be the best-selling one on the smartphones. Nevertheless, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) in the year 2010, filed a case against Google asserting that the latter had imbibed few parts of Java language in Android operating system by inappropriate means. Oracle sought around $1 billion on the copyright claims. It is quite interesting to note that the San Francisco Federal judge finished off the case by saying that Oracle had no copyright claim on the parts of this Java language. However, on May 9, 2014, the Federal Circuit panel comprising of three judges reversed the previous ruling by passing the judgement in favor of Oracle.
Proclamation of the Federal Circuit Judge
The Federal Circuit Judge, Kathleen O’Malley, in the ruling, wrote that the court concluded that a few commands for instructing the computer in order to perform desired operations might include expressions which were eligible for copyright protection.
Statement of Satisfaction from Oracle
The attorney handling the case for Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), E. Joshua Rosenkranz said that the law was always crystal clear on issues like these and that the Federal Circuit did as expected and not as something that should be seen as astonishment.
