Juge William Alsup ruled that the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java APIs were not covered under copyright law, wiping out Oracle’s best hope at damages in its infringement case against ...

Oracle said the Java APIs were like a beautiful painting. Google said they were more like a file cabinet. And in the end, Judge William Alsup came closest to agreeing with Google, comparing an API to ...

Get ready for another courtroom showdown between Oracle and Google over Java. The heavyweight legal match-up between Oracle and Google has already had some dramatic results: In 2014, a U.S. Court of ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

In the latest chapter of an ongoing legal battle, a U.S. appeals court has just ruled that Oracle can be granted copyright protection for its Java APIs in a battle with Google over Android's inclusion ...

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Security has been somewhat of an afterthought as part of the Java EE development environment. Developers have either had to implement security at the server level or use a third-party framework. This ...

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The legal battle between Google and Oracle over the use of Java in Google’s Android software is more than just another bruising patent fight between rival tech companies. The more unusual and ...

APIs, or application programming interfaces, make the digital world go round. Working behind the scenes to define the parameters by which software applications communicate with each other, APIs ...