by Ted Sabety | Apr 5, 2021 | Information Technology & Enterprise Software Procurement, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation, Software Procurement & Licensing
April 5, 2021. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. 593 U.S. __(2021). We wrote last year about the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle over Java computer language and its potential to create copyright over a computer language. The US Supreme Court handed...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 9, 2020 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
February, 2020. The ongoing dispute between Google and Oracle over the Java computer language, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, has attracted the attention of the music publishing industry. The Songwriters’ Guild of America (SGA) filed an amicus brief before the US...
by Ted Sabety | May 27, 2016 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
May 2016. Copyright Law. ORACLE v. GOOGLE (ND Ca). A Jury in the Federal District Court, ND California Finds Google’s Use of Android in certain Java “Declaring Code” that is Owned by Oracle is Fair Use. This was a copyright and patent case brought against Google by...
by Ted Sabety | May 9, 2014 | Media, Copyrights & the Internet
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit has significantly strengthened U.S. copyright protection of computer programs. The Court reversed and remanded the Oracle v. Google case. Oracle sued Google alleging that the Android platform infringed its copyrights in the...