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WASHINGTON : The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to consider whether to protect Alphabet Inc's Google<\/a> from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle<\/a> Corp accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the Android operating system<\/a> that runs most of the world's smartphones.
The shorthanded court, down one justice following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month, is scheduled to hear oral arguments in Google's appeal of a lower court ruling reviving the lawsuit in which Oracle has sought at least $8 billion in damages. The arguments will be held by teleconference because of the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic.
A jury cleared Google in 2016, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned that decision in 2018, finding that Google's inclusion of Oracle's software code in Android was not permissible under U.S. copyright law.
Oracle and Google, two California-based technology giants with combined annual revenues of more than $190 billion, have been feuding since Oracle sued for copyright infringement in 2010 in federal court in San Francisco. The case's outcome will help determine the level of copyright protection for software, according to intellectual property lawyers.
Oracle accused Google of copying thousands of lines of computer code from its popular Java<\/a> programming language without a license in order to make Android, a competing platform that has harmed Oracle's business.
Google has said the shortcut commands it copied into Android do not warrant copyright protection because they help developers write programs to work across platforms, a key to software innovation.
Even if the commands can be copyrighted, Google has said, its use of them was permissible under the \"fair use\" defense to copyright infringement, which can protect copying that transforms an original copyrighted work. Google has argued that its copying was \"undoubtedly transformative\" because it resulted in \"an entirely new smartphone<\/a> platform.\"
The Federal Circuit in 2018 rejected Google's defense, saying \"a mere change in format (e.g., from desktop and laptop computers to smartphones and tablets) is insufficient as a matter of law to qualify as a transformative use.\"
Oracle will recalculate its damages request if it wins at the Supreme Court and the case is sent back to a lower court, Oracle General Counsel Dorian Daley said in an interview. The compensation request would exceed the roughly $8 billion Oracle previously demanded, Daley added.
President Donald Trump<\/a>'s administration backed Oracle in the case, previously urging the justices to turn away Google's appeal.
The Supreme Court originally scheduled the argument for March but postponed it due to the pandemic.
The court has eight justices rather than its full complement of nine. President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Senate to confirm Amy Coney Barrett, his nominee to replace Ginsburg, by the Nov. 3 U.S. election.
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周三美国最高法院将考虑是否要保护字母表由甲骨文(orcl . o:行情)公司的谷歌从长期诉讼指控其侵犯甲骨文版权建造世界上大多数的Android操作系统的智能手机。
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华盛顿:美国最高法院周三将考虑是否要保护字母(aapl . o:行情)的谷歌从一个漫长的诉讼甲骨文公司指控其侵犯甲骨文版权构建Android操作系统世界上大部分的智能手机运行。
人手不足的法院,一个司法Ruth Bader Ginsburg上个月去世后,预计会在谷歌听取口头辩论的吸引力的下级法院的裁决恢复甲骨文的诉讼寻求至少80亿美元的损失。参数将举行电话会议,因为冠状病毒大流行。
陪审团了谷歌在2016年,但美国联邦巡回上诉法院在2018年推翻了这一决定,发现谷歌在安卓的甲骨文的软件代码不允许根据美国版权法。
甲骨文和谷歌,两个加利福尼亚科技巨头联合年收入超过1900亿美元,已经不和自2010年甲骨文起诉侵权在旧金山联邦法院。案件的结果将帮助确定软件的版权保护水平,根据知识产权律师。
甲骨文指责谷歌的计算机复制成千上万行代码从它的受欢迎Java编程语言无照为了让Android,伤害甲骨文商业竞争平台。
谷歌曾表示,快捷命令它复制到Android不保证版权保护,因为他们帮助开发者编写程序跨平台工作,软件创新的关键。
即使命令可以受版权保护的,谷歌说,它的使用是允许的“公平使用”国防侵犯版权,这可以保护复制转换一个原始版权工作。谷歌认为复制是“毫无疑问的”,因为它导致了“一个全新的智能手机平台。”
联邦巡回法院在2018年拒绝了谷歌的辩护,说“仅仅改变格式(例如,从台式机和笔记本电脑到智能手机和平板电脑)不足的法律资格是一个变革的使用。”
甲骨文将重新计算其损害赔偿请求如果赢了最高法院和案件发回下级法院,甲骨文公司总法律顾问道林·戴利在一次采访中说。赔偿请求将超过约80亿美元甲骨文之前要求,戴利补充道。
总统唐纳德·特朗普以前的政府支持Oracle,敦促法官拒绝谷歌的吸引力。
最高法院原定于3月的理由但推迟由于大流行。
法院有八个法官而不是完整的九个。唐纳德·特朗普总统已经要求美国参议院确认艾米康尼巴雷特,他的候选人取代金斯伯格,11月3日美国大选。
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