Supposedly anyone other than Google to be responsible for copyright infringement, Oracle of his patent application in 2010 has prompted August. This is a notification to the District Court of Northern California shows. At 31 pages, Google in 20 arguments. Among others, it is there: is there among others: "If by copyright protected elements for the Android platform have been used, this was done without the knowledge of Google For this reason Google is not liable for that.."

In addition, the search provider is the role of the Open Handset Alliance to discuss, for the development of Android is responsible. Nor can basically open any software download and adapt them to his needs.
The opinion refers to Oracle's modification of his application in October. One could interpret Google's approach in two directions, said the open source specialist lawyer Pamela Jones."Either Google wants better agreement knock out one or the whole cake gravy train but every Java and made available for free." Jones, according to Oracle may well engage in settlement out of court. Otherwise, it is expected to come to trial in October 2011.

Oracle had broken the law suit from the fence because it was on Google's money, believes Jones. Would be drawn and the Open Handset Alliance and individual developers in the process with, the reindeer is not the effort. In early October , Google had the first word in the matter reported to. In his view, the action lacks any foundation. The end of August, Oracle code examples before, which should prove that Google is the issue code to the Java source text was copied directly from