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Google accuses Oracle of bad faith in Android Java suit

The search giant has struck back at Oracle's Java lawsuit, arguing that Oracle made its patent infringement claims with 'unclean hands... Read more

6 October, 2010 by David Meyer

Oracle: Google copied Java code in Android

...Oracle has updated its recently filed Google Java lawsuit to include allegations that the search giant directly copied its code... Read more

28 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Sun's Microsoft suit: The fine print

Microsoft will use the .Net Framework to extend its PC operating system monopoly to encompass every computing device connected to the network, according to Sun's lawsuit Read more

11 March, 2002 by ZDNet UK

Sun slaps Microsoft with $1bn lawsuit

Sun Microsystems has filed a private antitrust suit against Microsoft over the latter's handling of Java. It's asking for preliminary injunctions to require Microsoft to ship Java with Windows XP and Internet Explorer Read more

8 March, 2002 by Stephen Shankland

Experts: Java lawsuit could be tough to win

News analysis: Sun is gunning for Microsoft with an aggressive lawsuit, but expert opinion is divided over whether or not it can win Read more

11 March, 2002 by Joe Wilcox

Kodak defends Java lawsuit

Kodak is claiming that Sun has infringed its patents, but the software company says the suit is 'without merit' Read more

14 February, 2002 by Jonathan Skillings

Microsoft claims victory in Java lawsuit

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25 August, 1999 by Suzanna Kerridge

Did Microsoft and HP collude on Java?

Newly unsealed documents in the Sun Microsystems Inc./Microsoft Corp. Java lawsuit offer evidence that Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Co. entered into an... Read more

15 January, 1999 by Deborah Gage

Ballmer and McNealy play buddies

...t you do this, say, three years ago, when you settled the Java lawsuit? Ballmer: The world of 2001 was discombobulated, frankly, because of the... Read more

5 April, 2004 by Ina Fried and Stephen Shankland

Microsoft settles Bristol lawsuit

...agreed to pay Sun Microsystems $20m (£13.9m) to settle Sun's Java lawsuit. "You can only fight so many wars at once, no matter... Read more

22 February, 2001 by Joe Wilcox

Microsoft wastes no time wooing Java crowd

On the heels of settling its Java lawsuit with Sun Microsystems, Microsoft on Thursday announced a new set of... Read more

26 January, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley and Wylie Wong

Microsoft and Sun: Cut from the same cloth?

...Sun. In discussing the Microsoft-Sun settlement of the 4-year-old Java lawsuit earlier this week, Java advocate Rick Ross made the following observation... Read more

26 January, 2001 by Mary Jo Foley

Guy Kewney's Diary

...It has been decreed that one of the columnists must explain the Java lawsuit between Sun and Microsoft. Straws are drawn, and mine is the... Read more

25 October, 1997 by Guy Kewney

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