Google v. Oracle: What We Learned from Oral Argument
By EsqSocial Corporation 22/10/20
On October 7, 2020, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Google v. Oracle, a decade-long battle challenging Oracle’s claim to own copyrights in certain aspects of its Java software platform that Google implemented in Android phones without taking a license. We’ve been tracking this case since last December, with deep dives on each of the questions presented to the Court: (1) whether copyright protection extends to software interfaces, and (2) whether, as the jury found, Google’s use of Oracle’s...
By: Dorsey & Whitney LLP