Oracle

The intellectual property lawsuit between Oracle and Google over the Android mobile OS won't go to trial until next year, according to a ruling made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by the judge overseeing the case.

Oracle sued Google last year, claiming that Android violated a number of copyrights and patents it holds on the Java programming language. Google has denied wrongdoing. The trial was initially set to begin Oct. 31 but was postponed last week by Judge William Alsup due to scheduling conflicts with a major criminal trial.

This month, Oracle released its critical patch update and Java SE critical patch update at the same time. A full 56 vulnerabilities were patched in Oracle products, such as Oracle Database, Fusion Middleware, Application Server, Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Identity Management, WebLogic Portal and Server, Outside In Technology, Enterprise Manager Grid Control, and the E-Business Suite.

A federal judge threw out a small part of Oracle's Java lawsuit against Google on Thursday but allowed the bulk of the case to proceed.

Oracle sued Google last year, arguing that Google had violated its Java intellectual property by writing its own version of the Java virtual machine, called Dalvik.

The start of the trial in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over alleged Java copyright and patent violations in the Android mobile OS could be delayed, according to a judge's ruling issued Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

"Soviet-style" negotiations and an opinion "not based on sufficient facts" – the judge presiding over the case of Oracle versus Google concerning violations of Java patents criticised the two parties harshly in a written statement handed down on Friday.

Strangely enough, many of the patches released on quarterly Patch Tuesday cure vulnerabilities that Oracle itself created with its own faulty security products, a database security analyst told eWEEK.

In its quarterly Patch Tuesday update on July 19, Oracle released a total of 78 security patches that encompass nearly every type of product in its portfolio.