The case started in 2012, when the jury found that Google had violated copyright, sparking a series of appeals to courts that culminated in a decision in 2014 that reversed the original verdict and led to new trial that just started.
Oracle holds in demand for about 9,000 million dollars that Google stole part of their legally protected copyright Java code for develop its Android operating system, used by most mobile phones in the world.
Google, meanwhile, says that he acted lawfully to develop an innovative system.
the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, said today believe that your company could freely use Java because he personally released the programming language in 1995 when he was a senior executive at Sun Microsystems, company that invented the language and was subsequently acquired by Oracle.
Google, based in Mountain View (California, USA), argues that fair use stipulates the law of copyright allowed to use material protected by that law provided it is used to develop something innovative.
the company says it only used a small part of that language programming and the success of the operating system due to the work of its engineers.
Oracle, meanwhile, says that Google is making billions of dollars with thousands of phones mobile every day install the Android operating system and insists that this system contains Oracle proprietary code.
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