The long running fight between Google GOOG +1.16% and Oracle ORCL +1.81% seems to have taken another term as an appeals court seems to be mulling over the idea that the APIs of Java are indeed potentially subject to copyright protection. If this is so then Google has a pretty serious problem with Android itself. Here’s Florian Mueller’s view on the latest part of the case:
This week’s — actually, this year’s — most important development on the smartphone IP front was the reversal of fortunes in the Oracle v. Google Android-Java copyright litigation. Independent reporters who attended the hearing agreed that Oracle was now on the winning track and last year’s district court ruling was going to be reversed.
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