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Intellectual Property

Apr. 27, 2012

Oracle attorney spars with Google witness over blog post

In Oracle Corp.'s trial against Google Inc. for infringing copyrights to the Java programming language, defense attorneys have argued that Java's then-owner didn't object to what Google was doing, pointing to a blog post as evidence.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - From the beginning of Oracle Corp.'s copyright infringement trial against Google Inc. over key elements of the Java programming language, defense attorneys have argued that Java's then-owner Sun Microsystems Inc. did not object to what Google was doing.


As evidence, they pointed to Sun's chief executive officer Jonathan Schwartz, who wrote a blog post congratulating Googl...

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