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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...