NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A landmark court battle between Google and Oracle has begun — and its result will shape the future of the Android ecosystem fueling most of the world’s smartphones.

Silicon Valley’s power players are always in the throes of nasty patent fights against each other, but this one is especially potent. Oracle claims that Google’s Android violates two patents plus several copyrights that Oracle holds on its Java software, a ubiquitous programming language powering everything from phones to websites.

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