Oracle tells jury "you can't just step on somebody's intellectual property"

Oracle tells jury "you can’t just step on somebody’s intellectual property"

SAN FRANCISCO—Google’s Android operating system might be free, but it makes plenty of money off the system—and some of that cash ought to be headed to Oracle. At least that’s what the database company’s lawyer told a jury today. “You can’t just step on somebody’s intellectual property because you have a good business reason for it,” said Michael Jacobs, an Oracle lawyer. One of the biggest tech-industry legal disputes has moved to trial now in San Francisco, where a panel of 12 men and women was sworn in to hear eight weeks of testimony about whether Google violated copyright and patent laws when it created its Android operating system. Jacobs told jurors that Google was so eager to see Android take off, it was willing to charge ahead without getting a license from Sun—even though top Google execs knew it needed one. (Java was created by Sun Microsystems, which was purchased by Oracle a few years ago.) Read the comments on this post

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