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Oracle on Wednesday agreed to accept $0 in damages for the outstanding copyright infringement claims in its lawsuit against Google over its use of Java in Android in order to conclude the trial and move onto its appeal.
Judge Alsup ruled against Oracle in the long-winded legal case involving Google’s use of Java in the Android operating system that began in 2010.
The jury found that Google did not infringe on any of the patents being asserted by Oracle in the patent phase of the Android-Java trial.
After dramatic turns in the courtroom, the jury in the Oracle-Google patent-infringement trial finally found on Monday that Google had infringed upon some parts, but the results overall were a mixed bag.
The sizzling legal battle from Oracle and Android over the claimed use of Java in the Android operating system is reaching the close of its first phase, that of copyright.
