In May of 2012 I wrote "Google's Waterloo, Patent 6,061,520."
Google's claim was that an API was basically unpatentable.
It looked like Google would be taking Oracle to the cleaners by freely using its Java APIs.
But in a surprise move the US Supreme Court has declined Google's recent appeal on the matter and has thus breathed new life into Oracle's claims (see this WSJ article).
As I wrote before I believe its completely preposterous for Google to claim that an API is not a copyrightable item.
According to the WSJ article: "Google had asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and limit how software makers could use copyright law to assert exclusive rights over computer programs. It argued Oracle shouldn’t be able to claim copyrights on basic software commands."
Really - anyone can just take software written by anyone else just because they invented "basic software commands?"
Sure sounds like a money grab on Google's part to me....
Google's claim was that an API was basically unpatentable.
It looked like Google would be taking Oracle to the cleaners by freely using its Java APIs.
But in a surprise move the US Supreme Court has declined Google's recent appeal on the matter and has thus breathed new life into Oracle's claims (see this WSJ article).
As I wrote before I believe its completely preposterous for Google to claim that an API is not a copyrightable item.
According to the WSJ article: "Google had asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and limit how software makers could use copyright law to assert exclusive rights over computer programs. It argued Oracle shouldn’t be able to claim copyrights on basic software commands."
Really - anyone can just take software written by anyone else just because they invented "basic software commands?"
Sure sounds like a money grab on Google's part to me....
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