Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.
U.S. Supreme Court · decided April 5, 2021 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Decided
- April 5, 2021
- Term
- October Term 2020
- Vote
- 6–2
- Majority author
- Justice Breyer
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Reversed and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party won
- Ideological direction
- Liberal
Opinion excerpt
4/6/2021 10:15:22 AM Compare Results Old File: New File: 18-956.pdf 18-956_new.pdf versus 62 pages (323 KB) 62 pages (322 KB) 4/2/2021 3:47:01 PM 4/6/2021 10:13:01 AM Total Changes Content Styling and Annotations 1 1 Replacement 0 Styling 0 Insertions 0 Annotations 0 Deletions Go to First Change (page 59) file://NoURLProvided[4/6/2021 10:15:22 AM] (Slip Opinion) OCTOBER TERM, 2020 1 Syllabus NOTE: Where it is feasible, a syllabus (headnote) will be released, as is being done in connection with this case, at the time the opinion is issued. The syllabus constitutes no part of the opinion of the Court but has been prepared by the Reporter of Decisions for the convenience of the reader. See United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co., 200 U. S. 321 , 337. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Syllabus GOOGLE LLC v. ORACLE AMERICA, INC. CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FEDERAL CIRCUIT No. 18–956. Argued October 7, 2020—Decided April 5, 2021 Oracle America, Inc., owns a copyright in Java SE, a computer platform that uses the popular Java computer programming language. In 2005, Google acquired Android and sought to build a new software platform for mobile devices. To allow the millions of programmers familiar with the Java programming language to work with its new Android plat- form, Google copied roughly 11,500 lines of code from the Java SE pro- gram. The…
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