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Revision as of 09:51, 10 September 2010
Oracle is a software company focused on databases.
On 12 August 2010, Oracle filed suit against Google for infringement of seven Java patents. (See Oracle v. Google (2010, USA))
Oracle is a licensee of Open Invention Network.[1]
Oracle bought Sun Microsystems in early 2010, including patents related to Java and the ZFS filesystem.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
- Webpage and web service patents - discusses Oracle's "CMS" patent
- Sun Microsystems (an ex-company, bought by Oracle in 2009)
- NetApp's filesystem patents (used against ZFS, which Oracle now owns along with the ZFS patents)
External links
- Oracle's 1994 position was against swpats
- (from the 1994 USPTO software patent hearings)
- Someone tried to confirm their current policy in 2000, but seemingly failed to make contact with Oracle)
- View Oracle patents short article with links about Oracle's patents
- 2005: http://nipclaw.blogspot.com/2005/09/oracle-corporations-application.html
