A district court judge has ruled that the Java APIs in Android are not eligible for protection under U.S. copyright law, marking a defeat for Oracle in a high-stakes lawsuit against Google. The ruling ...

Last week, the long-simmering software dispute between Google and Oracle boiled over, as the Supreme Court heard arguments in the tech giants’ copyright fight. The story began in federal court in San ...

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Oracle is appealing a judge's ruling last year that its APIs were not copyrightable, which led to the dismissal of claims against Google. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been ...

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Oracle has won an appeal in its four-year old legal battle with Google over the search giant's use of Java technology in its Android mobile operating system, in a development that could have ...