New update in Oracle's lawsuit against Google tries to include Android's market dominance

We recently wrote a report on the Supreme Court's decision to allow Oracle's lawsuit against Google to continue to trial. It would seem that things have moved quickly since then, as Oracle's attorneys have just asked a U.S. judge to update its lawsuit to include the current market dominance held by the Android operating system. This recent action seems to make it abundantly clear that neither side is ready to settle the matter, and that the case will indeed go to trial.

The suit primarily concerns copyright protection's relation to programming language, and whether the owner of a language's intellectual property (in this case Oracle owning Java) entitles them to any patented software developed in that language (in this case the Android operating system.)

As the Android platform is currently the most popular and best selling phone OS in the world, Oracle is seeking approximately $1 billion in damages.

The latest update of the 2010 lawsuit would add that Google has, since the original filing, continued its copyright infringement by updating the Android system, and that the product's increased market share entitles Oracle to even more damages.

In a letter to Judge William Alsup this week, Oracle's attorneys wrote that "The record of the first trial does not reflect any of these developments in the market, including Google's dramatically enhanced market position in search engine advertising and the overall financial results from its continuing and expanded infringement."

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