U S Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Google In Java Software Code Lawsuit
This decision also overturns an earlier federal court ruling that found the search giant’s use of the API constituting infringement. For those unaware, Oracle had filed a legal lawsuit against Google in 2010 in San Francisco federal court accusing it of infringing Oracle’s copyright by copying the “structure, sequence, and organization” of 37 separate Java application programming interfaces (APIs) into Android. It was seeking a $9 billion pay-day in the copyright case....