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In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court
reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLC s
( 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 Google s use of
portions of the Java API code in the Android mobile platform. (
Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.,
No. 18-956, 593 U.S. (Apr. 5, 2021)). In reversing the
2018 Federal Circuit decision that found