On Wednesday, a California jury agreed that Google’s Android device didn’t infringe on Oracle Corp’s copyright patents, after initially stating that they had. The jury announced the verdict for the legal battle, after Oracle accused Google for infringing on its Java code in building the Android software.
The same jury had found earlier that Google did infringe on some Java code, but they couldn’t unanimously agree on whether Google’s use of that particular material was unlawful. Google initially argued that Java is an “open-source” software that is available to the pubic. If Google had been found responsible for copyright infringement, Oracle would have gained the $1 billion dollars they were suing for.