Search outfit Google has told Oracle that any copyright problems over its Android software are not its problem.
Google is being sued by Oracle over claims that there are Java related copyright problems within Android.
Oracle sued Google, claiming the company "knowingly, directly and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property" in developing the Android platform.
At the time Google claimed that Oracle's case was unwarranted, given the fact that Java is open-source.
According to court documents Google's latest legal documents show several new lines of defences beyond the open-source argument.
These are that Google did not infringe on any patents, any way Oracle's patents and copyrights are invalid or unenforceable and Android is fair use of Oracle's IP.
Google's will also claim that Oracle's licensing practices for certain open-source technologies and technologies not actually covered by Oracle's IP.
The last line of defence is that if there had been "any use in the Android platform of any protected elements" of Java, Google itself "is not liable" due to the face that such violations would have been committed by third parties and without Google's knowledge.
While Java is open source, what appears to be the problem with Android is the Dalvik virtual machine which is part of the stack that actually executes code on Android devices.This is useful for mobile gear because they don't have as much memory to play with and their processors are less than half the power of a PC.
Oracle claims that it is this which violates the patents.
http://code.google.com/p/search-as-you-type/
And their demo video on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElubRNRIUg4/
The name of search-as-you-type was coined by me and used as our branded product and this can be clearly seen in the newspaper articles in my blog.
http://searchasyoutype.wordpress.com/about
There are also two videos made in 1991 which can also be seen from this blog.
Watching these videos it can be clearly seen that the data is accessed in the same way as shown in the above Google demo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMB-vYrZ_ZE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFb87HRbKYQ
My product Autodispens used search-as-you-type everywhere and not just for accessing data. I believe that every type of “real time parsing algorithm” application is covered in this extensive program and this was done in DOS and on the very first PC’s. Am I going to have to pay royalties to use my own product done in 1989!
Until 2008 software in the UK was not patentable but was automatically covered under the copyright law. Is the US undermining UK copyright laws! There are dozens of concepts that I have developed based on this. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if there is any question you wish to ask me.
http://wwwery.com/?p=10694