Google Inc, running more than 300 million Android mobile devices worldwide, denied today, at a Federal court in San Francisco, stealing Oracle Corp' technology, whereas Oracle, the largest maker of database software, is seeking $1 billion in damages and a court order blocking Google from distributing Android unless it takes a license.Google has today denied for the need of licensing Java technology, but as per the earlier emails between Google and Oracle's officials, oogle executives knew the company had to license Java technology and then tried to hide evidence of Java code in Android.
Not only this, Oracle also alleges that Google infringed two Java patents that a court-appointed expert estimated are worth $2.8 million in damages.
In the first phase of the case trial, court will deal with allegations of copyright infringement. Phase two will address patent claims. If jurors find that Oracle's intellectual property was infringed, they will decide in a third phase whether the company is entitled to damages.
Google, operator of the biggest search engine, relies on Android, the most popular US smartphone operating system, to compete with Apple Inc in the mobile-phone market and to cut its dependence on traditional Web-search advertising. So apart from Google, Oracle and Android device manufacturing companies, Apple will also be interested in knowing the court decision over this issue.
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