Google warns: innovation will be stifled if Supreme Court rules against it

A long-running legal battle between Google and Oracle has finally made it to the Supreme Court. In August 2010, from Oracle's Java software without permission in the Android operating system. APIs, or Application programming interfaces, allow software to communicate with each other. The suit was filed just seven months after Oracle acquired Java by closing on its purchase of Sun Microsystems, a transaction that closed on January 27, 2010. Oracle is seeking at least $8.8 billion from Google.

Both sides have had legal victories along the way to the Supreme Court. In ...

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