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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 In a 6–2 decision authored by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s 2018 ruling that Google’s use of Oracle’s Java application programming interface (API) packages in its Android operating system did not qualify as fair use as a matter of law. Before that Federal Circuit decision could be sent… Source link

Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages.  The battle began between these tech giants when Google designed its Android software platform for mobile devices, such as smartphones.  The platform allows “computer programmers to develop new programs and applications” for Android-based devices.  In designing the mobile platform, Google independently developed most of the code but copied what the parties… Source link

Greetings, Court Fans! Just one decision to report in this Update, but it’s a biggie, at least for IP nerds and coders. In Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. (No. 18-956), the Court held that Google’s copying of certain portions of a computer program owned by Oracle, called Java, was fair use under the copyright laws. In doing so, Justice Breyer, writing for a 6-2 majority, also offered insight into how the Court would address the somewhat awkward fit for computer… Source link

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the long-standing copyright battle between technology titans, Google LLC and Oracle America, Inc.1, Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. , ruling 6-2 in favor of Google.2 Oracle alleged that Google copied and used a limited portion of the code from the Java SE platform. The Court’s opinion, penned by Justice Breyer, said that when Google originally acquired Android, it had envisioned building the Android platform as a free and open… Source link

Google zz/John Nacion/STAR MAX/IPx Thus spoke Zarathustra.1 Well, at least thus spoke the U.S. Supreme Court in the recent Google v. Oracle decision on the fair use defense in copyright. Here is my jaded take on the decision: • The Justices purported to follow the time-honored path of analysis, which proceeds in the following order: (a) first, purport to apply the four factors in the fair use statute, (b) the first factor is interpreted to ask whether the potentially… Source link

If you want to make big money, offer something that people want, but no one else can offer. The Portuguese sourced spices in the Fifteenth Century. Rockefeller locked up East Coast oil distribution in the Nineteenth Century. AT&T was once the only option for phone calls in much of the last century. They made huge profits. The digital world can be ripe for monopoly or near monopoly, sometimes because only one company unlocked the key to a technology, and sometimes because the software or… Source link

Google and Oracle faced off at the U.S. Supreme Court on April 7 in a multibillion-dollar copyright dispute. Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg The U.S. Supreme Court dealt Oracle Corp. a brutal defeat on April 5, ruling that Google hadn’t violated Oracle’s copyright when it used its Java programming language to… Source link

Google’s copying of so-called application programming interfaces from Oracle’s Java SE was an example of fair use, the court held in a 6-2 decision authored by Justice Stephen Breyer. In addition to resolving a multibillion-dollar dispute between the tech titans, the ruling helps affirm a longstanding practice in software development. But the Court declined to weigh in on the broader question of whether APIs are copyrightable. Google said the Court’s opinion “is a victory for consumers,… Source link

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 for Google in a case in which tech giant Oracle accused it of illegally copying its code. The decision is the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two companies. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle… Source link

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