Intellectual property lawsuit between Google and Oracle

Intellectual property lawsuit between Google and Oracle Moved to the Supreme Court.

US technology company Oracle on Android operating system against Google. Intellectual property lawsuit filed due to the use of the Java software platform. Began to appear at the Supreme Court.

In the case seen online due to the new type of coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak.

Google’s lawyers preparing Android, developed as an operating system for mobile phones in 2007. Stating that millions of lines of new computer code were written, only 11 thousand 330 lines of code were used from Java, which is used as a software base.

Argued that the intellectual property claim was unfair. The Google side emphasizing that Java is an open platform, an Application Programming Interface (API). It is common practice within the computer and software industry to use root codes on open platforms.

Also, Oracle claims copyright for its own portion of the code.

In Oracle’s 2010 lawsuit against California Northern District Court, the court found Google right. Oracle appealed the decision, and the Court of Appeal ruled on May 9, 2014, that the APIs copyrighted. Following the appeal process, Google brought the case to the US Supreme Court.