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Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Copyright transformed: Supreme Court rules copying code from Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into new APIs is a fair use

On April 5, 2021, the US Supreme Court held in a 6-2 decision that Google’s copying of computer code from Oracle’s Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into new API’s used in Google’s Android™ operating system was a...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Oracle v. Google: What Does The Supreme Court Decision Mean For Software Companies?

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After over 10 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week in Oracle v. Google that Google’s use of 11,500 lines of Oracle’s code in its Android platform was a fair use. Borrowing the code made it easier...more

Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints

United States Supreme Court Rules for Google in a Landmark Fair Use Decision

On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that could have profound implications in the software industry. It held 6-2 that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of code from Oracle’s Java SE API in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Special Report - 2019 IP Law Year in Review - Copyrights

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In many ways, copyright jurisprudence in 2019 was a study in contrasts. While certain cases represented a “back to basics” approach, answering fundamental questions such as “When can a copyright owner sue for copyright...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Google v. Oracle: SCOTUS Grants Cert In The “Copyright Lawsuit of the Decade” - Now What?

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On November 15, 2019, the Supreme Court granted cert in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. For many observers, this was a long time coming; the parties have been litigating the underlying case since August 2010, and from its...more

Snell & Wilmer

Google v. Oracle Heads to the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court’s cert grant on the Federal Circuit’s most recent decision in the long-running and highly publicized battle between Oracle and Google appears to confront policy questions as much as legal ones — such as...more

Proskauer - New Media & Technology

Supreme Court Rejects Google’s Appeal in Java API Dispute

On June 29th, the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Google’s appeal of the Federal Circuit’s 2014 ruling that that the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of 37 Java API packages are entitled to...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"Federal Circuit Overturns Oracle v. Google and Potentially Widens Debate Over Copyright Protections"

In a landmark decision concerning the copyrightability of computer software, on May 9, 2014, the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals held that Oracle, Inc. is entitled to copyright protection for 37 Java application...more

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