A decade-old legal battle between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google over software rights moves to the Supreme Court on Oct 7, in a case with enormous implications for copyright in the digital era. — Kimihiro Hoshino and Josh Edelson/AFP
WASHINGTON: A decade-old legal battle between Silicon Valley giants Oracle and Google over software rights moves to the US Supreme Court on Oct 7, in a case with enormous implications for copyright in the digital era.
The top court scheduled oral arguments in the case which dates back to a lawsuit filed in 2010 by Oracle seeking billions from Google over its use of Java programming language in its Android mobile operating system.
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