SAN FRANCISCO – Oracle and Google closed their respective cases in the copyright portion of an ongoing legal battle over Google’s Android mobile phone software Monday, leaving a jury to decide on one half of a high-profile trial over the alleged infringement of Oracle’s Java copyrights and patents.
Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs closed his client’s copyright case by arguing Google’s defense amounted to a series of insufficient excuses for pilfering Java in order to build Android, which has since become the most popular smartphone software platform in the world.
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