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Friday, April 9, 2021 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 Google’s us...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision that could have profound implications in the software industry.  It held 6-2 that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of code from Oracle’s Java SE API in Google’s Android platform was a fair and transformative use The Court pushed the boundaries of the “transformative” test beyond determining whether the use is different than the copyright holder’s intended use, handing Google a major legal victory in a case with extremely high stakes. When Google de...

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 Californi...

Google's Copying Of Oracle's Java SE API Was 'Fair Use', Holds US Supreme Court Share This - x Putting an end to a decade long copyright battle between Google and Oracle, the Supreme Court of United States, held that Google's copying of the Java SE API was a fair use of that material. The court (6:2) noted that the API included only those lines of code that were needed to allow programmers to put their accrued talents to work in a new and transformative program. Oracle had sued Google in 2010 for copyright infringement over this copied computer code. The Federal Circuit court ruled in favou...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Supreme Court finally resolved the dispute between Google and Oracle over Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of declaring code from nearly 3 million lines of code from Sun Java API was copyright infringement. Dodging the question of whether such code is even copyrightable, the Supreme Court found that the copying of the code, for the purpose of making Android programming similar to other Java programming, was a fair use. The Supreme Court found that the Federal Circuit correctly identified Fair Use as a mixed question of law and...