A federal jury found on Monday that Google Inc. infringed
Oracle Corp. copyrights, but its decision appeared unlikely to require Google
pay a significant amount for damages the Wall St Journal reports.
The jury decided that when Google was developing its Android
mobile phone software it made use of Oracle's Java interfaces, or essential
building blocks for applications. But it was unable to decide whether that its
use was protected by a fair-use doctrine that permits some limited use of
copyrighted materials.
The jury separately found that Google infringed a small
amount of Java code as it developed Android. But the judge overseeing the….
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