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Google v Oracle SCOTUS ruling
Managing IP spoke to four in-house counsel about the impact of the US Supreme Court’s ruling in
Google v Oracle, from Monday, April 5.
The court ruled that Google’s use of Oracle’s code was fair – in a decision that concluded a decade-long battle between the two businesses.
Sources said that the ruling was good for the software industry, but they disagreed on whether the court got the details right.
Some attorneys, for example, thought that the court made the right move in declining to rule on the copyrightability of application programming interfaces (APIs).