Court Fails To Settle Dispute Between Oracle and Google For Java

Oracle seeks billions of dollars from Google for unfairly using Java programming language

Google and Oracle were unable to settle a long-lasting copyright petition regarding the Android operating system before a re-trial scheduled in May, revealed a court docket. The lawsuit involves how much copyright security must expand to the programming language – Java. Oracle wants to receive billions of dollars in terms of royalties for use of Java, while Google claims it must be allowed to use the programming language without a fee.

In 2012, at trial in a federal court in San Francisco, the jury faced a deadlock on the fair use of defense by the search engine organization. Both companies took part in a court-ordered settlement conference, which was held on April 15, 2016 before a US magistrate in San Jose, in an effort to stave re-trial off in May 2016.

CEO of Google Sundar Pichai and CEO of Oracle Safra Catz both participated in the conference for 6 hours on April 15, 2016, but talks weren’t successful, US Magistrate Paul Grewal wrote in a concise statement. Representatives of the two organizations could not be contacted for comments.

Oracle alleges the search engine company of not legally imitating an essential part of the Java into its Android, earning billions of dollars in profit and crushing the chance of Java success in tablet, smartphone and other devices.

The Mountain View based organization refuses any wrongdoing. It claims that its use of the programming language is defended by the lawful doctrine of “fair use” which allows imitating in some of the circumstances. The two parties have already taken the issue to the court once, but the jury was unable to reach any settlement on the fair use of Java.

The computer tech company intends to inform the jury it is entitled to damages worth $8.8 billion, based on the huge profits Google has earned from using the language in its Android, majority from advertisements sold against mobile searches.

Google is battling to cut down the figure prior to the trail of the case. Lawyers of the 2 parties appeared in front of trial judge William Alsup in April 2016, arguing regarding which claims each party must be able to make before the jury.

At the closing of hearing on April 14, 2016, William reminded the lawyers of the company about the risks they bear by brining such a high-shares case before the court of law.

According to recent reports by Tech Eye, Google may replace with Swift as its “first class” language for Android. Although Swift will be not replacing Java, at least initially, it looks like the search engine operator has found out a way to hit the efforts by Oracle to screw out money from it.