Little risk for Google in retrial vs Oracle over Android

A man walks past the Android entrance stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Albert Gea

SAN FRANCISCO: Even if a jury orders Alphabet Inc's Google to pay the full US$8.8bil (RM35.28bil) sought by Oracle Corp in an upcoming San Francisco copyright trial over the Android operating system, shareholders and analysts say it will likely have little impact on the search giant's bottom line. 

Oracle claims Google's Android violated its copyright on parts of the Java programming language, while Google says it should be able to use Java without paying a fee under the fair-use provision of copyright law.