Landmark Fair Use Victory At The Supreme Court In Software Case - Intellectual Property
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLCs ("Google") copying of some of the Sun Java Application Programming Interface (API) declaring code was a fair use as a matter of law, ending Oracle America Inc.s ("Oracle") infringement claims over Googles use of portions of the Java API code in the Android mobile platform. ...
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