Ars Technica

Google, Oracle Java API copyright battle lands at Supreme Court

Google is asking the US Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court ruling that said Oracle's Java API's were protected by copyright. Google told the justices in a petition [PDF] this week that ...
Android Authority

Google could owe Oracle billions for the Java code in Android

A new ruling in a court of appeals reverses a 2016 ruling that Google doesn’t owe any money to Oracle for the use of Java code in Android. This case has been going on for nearly a decade, and could ...
JD Supra

The Federal Circuit Reverses Google’s Win on Its Fair Use Defense in Oracle’s Copyright Infringement Suit Concerning Java Software API Packages

Last week, in Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC, Nos. 2017-1118, 1202 (Fed. Cir. March 27, 2018), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that Google’s unauthorized use of certain ...
Ars Technica

Google admits to using undocumented API in Google Mobile app

The suspicions of many in the iPhone developer community have been confirmed by Google. A spokesman for the company told CNet yesterday that its latest update to Google Mobile does indeed make use of ...