Oracle Vs. Google

Bloomberg reports:

Oracle Corp. (ORCL) is seeking billions of dollars in damages in a patent- and copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google Inc. (GOOG) that claims the search-engine company’s Android software uses technology related to the Java programming language, according to court papers.

The extent of the claims was disclosed yesterday in San Francisco federal court by Oracle, as it sought to prevent Google from filing under seal documents in the case stating Oracle’s monetary claims.

“Oracle’s damages claims in this case are in the billions of dollars,” the company said in a filing, arguing that its demands “are based on both accepted methodology and a wealth of concrete evidence.”

“They should not be hidden from public view,” Oracle said.

Oracle got Java when it bought Sun Microsystems. I would expect that any legal battle might take years to resolve. But someone must think they have a case. Shares of $ORCL are up more than 2% today.

Posted by on June 17th, 2011 at 11:13 am


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