Google defeats Oracle in copyright fight at US Supreme Court Published article An undated file image shows the company logo at Googleplex, the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc., in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) A clash between tech behemoths Google, LLC and Oracle America, Inc. ended Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Google's copying of 11,500 lines of Oracle's code for the Android software platform was permitted under the copyright law's "fair use" defense. The 6-2 ruling, written by Justice Stephen Breyer, reversed a decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in a case that originated in federal court in San Francisco.