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May 7, 2012 11:22 pm GMT

The Verdict Is In: Google Infringed On Oracle Copyrights

gavelThe jury in the long-running infringement case between Google and Oracle has ruled that certain pieces of Android APIs were too similar to code used in Oracle's Java programming tools. But the jury was split on whether or not Google could claim fair use in its defense.The decision comes after nearly two years of legal wrangling between the companies: Oracle originally filed the lawsuit in August 2010, claiming that Android infringed on technology that it had acquired from Sun Microsystems a year earlier.

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