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Reflecting on Java's 20-year anniversary last week, the easiest future prediction to make is that someone will be suing someone else about Java in 2035. I assert this not just for the schadenfreude (are we still using that word in 2015?) but because it is true: Java has been a frequent presence in the courts since its launch in 1995.

Duke, the Java mascot, made his first appearance in a US court of law in 1997, when Sun sued Microsoft for breach of contract. It happened again in 2010, when Oracle filed a patent-infringement claim against Google, and then followed up with a copyright claim over published application programming interfaces (APIs).

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