(Bay City News) A lawyer for Oracle Corp. charged at a federal trial in San Francisco Monday that Google Inc. executives at the “highest level” deliberately violated Oracle copyrights and patents in software for Android mobile phones.
Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs made the allegation in his opening statement on the first day of a two-month jury trial on Redwood Shores-based Oracle’s civil lawsuit against Mountain View-based Google.
The business software company claims that Google violated patents and copyrights associated with Java computer programming language in software Google developed for its Android smartphones and tablets.
“This case is about Google’s use in Google’s business of somebody else’s property without permission,” Jacobs told the 12-member jury in the court of U.S. District Judge William Alsup at the Federal Building.
Jacobs went on to contend that the alleged infringement was not inadvertent and was not a mistake.