Share This - x On 5th April 2021 the United States Supreme Court (USSC) finally delivered its verdict on the most keenly watched copyright dispute of this century. USSC's 6-2 decision is a big win for Google as it overturned the 2018 decision of Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which decided in favour of Oracle. USSC held that Google's use of the Java Application Program Interface was a fair use as a matter of law. Origins of the Dispute The case started in 2010 when Oracle filed a law suit against Google in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California (District Court) for both patent and copyright infringement. The main allegation of Oracle was that Google's unauthorised use of 37 packages of Oracle's Java Application Programming Interface (API) in its Android operating system infringed the patents and copyright of Oracle. An API divides and arranges the world of computing tasks in a particular manner and programmers can then use the API to select the specific task that they need for their programs