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In the battle of the Larrys, this one goes . . . to Larry.

Chief Executive Larry Page of Google won the day in court against fellow billionaire Larry Ellison of Oracle yesterday.

A federal jury in the second phase of an intellectual-property trial in San Francisco found that Google didn’t didn’t infringe Oracle’s patents in developing Android software. The 10-person jury ruled unanimously 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 alleged Google stole two patents for the Java programming language when it developed Android.

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.”

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