Google Appeal in Oracle Copyright Suit Gets Supreme Court Inquiry

Supreme Court seeks Trump administration input in dispute
Oracle seeks billions in case that’s split Silicon Valley

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By Susan Decker

April 29, 2019 at 1:31 PM UTC

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The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Trump administration for its views on Oracle Corp.’s bid to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to pay at least $8 billion in royalties over programming code in the Android operating system.

Google is challenging an appeals court ruling that it violated Oracle copyrights when it included some Oracle-owned Java programming code in Android, the dominant operating system in mobile devices.