Google requests SC to hear copyright
In a request filed with the US Supreme Court on Monday, Google has urged the court to hear a copyright-infringement case which was initiated against the company by Oracle four years back. Oracle had accused Google of violating patents and copyrights pertaining to Java in its Android mobile OS.
With some developers having expressed the opinion that the 2010-filed case can have a noteworthy impact on their ability to make software-related innovations, Google has put forth the argument that the SC must act to protect innovation in technology.
The Google-Oracle copyright-infringement case chiefly examined whether computer language which connects programs - called application programming interfaces (APIs) - can be copyrighted. Oracle had claimed, at trial, that Google's Android OS had infringed on its patents to the structure of 37 Java APIs.
In its request to the SC, Google has asked the court to overturn a verdict by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington. The appeals court had found that Oracle could copyright parts of the Java programming language that had been used by Google for designing its Android OS.
In filing its request to the SC for hearing the case, Google has asserted: 'Early computer companies could have blocked vast amounts of technological development by claiming 95-year copyright monopolies over the basic building blocks of computer design and programming.'
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