Google is denying Oracle's allegation that it directly copied lines of Oracle's Java code for its Android mobile OS, according to a court filing made Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Oracle sued Google in August over alleged intellectual-property violations in Android. On Oct. 27, Oracle updated its complaint with more specifics, including a number of exhibits purporting to show "line-for-line" copying by Google.

Google's answer to that filing "specifically denies that Google has infringed or is liable for any infringement of any valid and enforceable copyrights or copyright rights of Oracle." The company also denies that one of Oracle's exhibits "contains a true and correct copy of a class file from either Android or 'Oracle America's Java.'"

In addition, Oracle has "redacted or deleted from the materials shown in Exhibit J both expressive material and copyright headers that appear in the actual materials, which are significant elements and features of the files in question," Google argued.

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