Oracle's First Big Move With Sun? Use Sun's Patents To Sue Google
real-companies-innovate,-not-litigate dept Fri, Aug 13th 2010 7:40am — Mike Masnick Over the past few years, Sun has been one of the more outspoken companies against abusing the patent system, with former CEO Jonathan Schwartz explaining that real companies innovate, not litigate. However, Sun and its patents are now owned by Oracle, and apparently Larry Ellison feels otherwise. Oracle is now suing Google for patent infringement, using a bunch of patents that Sun owns around Java, claiming that Google's Android implementation of Java is done without a license. This is a bit surprising, real...
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