Google, Oracle attorneys wrap up first part of trial

Jurors began deliberating in the crucial first phase of a high-stakes trial over Google's Android mobile software, after attorneys traded final arguments over Oracle's claim that Android violates valuable copyrights for the Java programming system.

Google executives "knew they needed a license" to use key elements of the Java system, but they didn't get one, Oracle attorney Michael Jacobs told jurors in U.S. District Court. Instead, he said, Google took shortcuts and piggybacked on Java's popularity. "They put it in Android because it suited them, to get to market faster," he said. But Google attorney Robert Van Nest contended Android is a "transformative product" that Google engineers created "from scratch, using their own ingenuity and open-source products," including parts of the Java platform that were available in the public domain.