SAN FRANCISCO — Google didn’t infringe Oracle’s patents in developing Android software, a federal jury found in the second phase of an intellectual-property trial.
The 10-person jury ruled unanimously Wednesday that neither of the two patents at issue was infringed. Immediately after the verdict was announced, the judge dismissed the jury from the case and canceled the third phase of the trial over damages.
Oracle, the largest maker of database software, alleged Google stole two patents for the Java programming language when it developed Android, which now runs on more than 300 million smartphones. In the first phase of the trial, the same jury found the search-engine company infringed Oracle’s Java copyrights while it couldn’t agree on whether the copying was “fair use.”
Google and Oracle’s experts had estimated damages for both patents at $3 million to $4 million if the jury found infringement.
