Google has won its battle with Oracle over alleged copyright infringement related to Java code used in Android. The jury rejected Oracle’s claim that Google should have licensed a set of Java APIs, judging that these were covered by ‘fair use’ rules. This reverses the outcome of an earlier trial in the same court, which concluded that the Java APIs were eligible for copyright protection, and sets an important precedent for the wider open software business. Oracle may appeal, but for now has lost its chance of hefty damages – it was calling for over $9bn based on its calculation of the profits Google has made from Android, plus loss of Java revenue. Meanwhile, Huawei filed its first patent infringement…