Oracle Seeks to Revive Claim Google’s Android Copied Code
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Oracle Corp. asked a U.S. appeals court today to let it pursue claims Google Inc. owes it more than $1 billion for building its Android operating system, the most popular platform for mobile phones, using copied code.
Google “took the most important, the most appealing” parts of Oracle’s Java programming language to create Android, Oracle lawyer Josh Rosenkranz of Orrick Herrington in New York told a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington.