Google asks US Supreme Court to end Oracle copyright case


  • TECH
  • Friday, 25 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: The Oracle logo is shown on an office building in Irvine, California, U.S. June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Alphabet Inc’s Google on Jan 24 asked the US Supreme Court to reverse a ruling that resurrected a billion-dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp that dates to 2010. 

Google urged the high court to rule its copying of Oracle’s Java programming language to create the Android operating system was permissible under US copyright law. 

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