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Intellectual Property

Apr. 26, 2012

Google's executive chairman holds up strong under questioning

Google Inc. executive chairman, testifying Tuesday in Oracle Corp.'s copyright infringement trial, said he hoped to reach a business deal to use the Java programming language but thought he was on solid legal ground without a license.


By Craig Anderson


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. executive chairman Eric Schmidt, testifying Tuesday in Oracle Corp.'s copyright infringement trial against his company, said he had hoped to reach a business deal to use the Java programming language but thought he was on solid legal ground without a license.


Schmidt said Google and Sun Microsystems Inc., which owned Java until being acquired in 2010 by Oracle, tried ...

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