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According to foreign media reports, a US federal jury consisting of 12 members on Monday ruled that, Google infringed Oracle’s technology patents in the development of the Android operating system. Currently, Android has already operated in more than 300 million mobile devices.

However, the jury hasn’t yet been able to reach a unanimous verdict in whether the Google “fairly use” Oracle’s intellectual property rights.

The above ruling stops the Oracle’s claim requirements for all infringements. But according to U.S. District Judge William Alsup, the jury still believed that part of the technology in the Android violated Oracle’s patents. Oracle has been asking Google for this compensation of $ 1,000,000,000.

Google’s attorney Robert van Nystrom demanded that Al Supu should announce the above ruling is a mistrial. The solicitor believed that whether Google infringed in the end had a direct relationship with whether it used fairly. Al Supu claimed that he would consider Google’s request, and announced that the case began to enter the period of patent examination.

The above decision has entered the stage of intellectual property right trial lasting for eight weeks. This trial period began from April the 16th, and the next stage will be transferred to Oracle’s allegations of patent infringement matters. The third phase is the compensation stage, which will start after the end of the first two phases.

Copyright and patent

Oracle accused that Google copied the copyright and patent of the Java programming language when researching and developing the Android operating system for mobile devices. Google Android was released in 2007, while Oracle acquired Java from Sun Microsystems in 2010.

Although the jury has been asked to make a decision on whether Google has infringed part of Java patent called “API”. However, the final related ruling will continue to be made by Al Supu in the future.

Google spokesman Jim Prosser stated in an e-mail that: “We appreciate the efforts of the jury. But we know that fair use and infringement are like two different sides of the same coin. The core of the problem is whether the API here referred to really involve in infringement. Of course, this has to be decided by the court.”

At present, Oracle still has not made any comment on these matters.

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