The "problem" isn't even set up right. "The original work of authorship" is the Java API source code, which is not a "method of operation". The "method of operation" is the Java API. It is described ...

In this long-running dispute that has been previously dubbed “The World Series of IP cases” by the presiding judge, Oracle America Inc. (“Oracle”) accuses Google Inc. (“Google”) of unauthorized use of ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. A major intellectual property lawsuit involving IT giants ...

In a landmark decision concerning the copyrightability of computer software, on May 9, 2014, the U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals held that Oracle, Inc. is entitled to copyright protection for 37 ...

Get ready for another courtroom showdown between Oracle and Google over Java. The heavyweight legal match-up between Oracle and Google has already had some dramatic results: In 2014, a U.S. Court of ...

The Federal Circuit recently decided the case of Oracle America v. Google Inc. To “attract Java developers to build apps for Android,” Google copied the declaring code, but wrote its own implementing ...

On May 9, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued what will likely be a highly influential—and in many ways problematic—ruling on source code copyright, holding that a set of Java ...

The ruling that APIs can be copyrighted could make it a lot harder to take advantage of APIs with a direct license With Oracle’s surprise win in federal court today over its Java intellectual property ...

The ongoing legal saga known as the Oracle-Google copyright battle took a huge leap Wednesday when Oracle claimed the last six Android operating systems are "infringing Oracle's copyrights in the Java ...

Earlier today, the Federal Circuit issued the latest opinion in a long-standing copyright dispute between tech giants Oracle and Google. See Oracle America, Inc. v. Google LLC. This copyright case ...

The scene of the Oracle-Google trial today was more like a computer science classroom than a courtroom as the witnesses explained the inner workings of Java and APIs. Mark Reinhold, Oracle Java ...