The US government is urging the US Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Google's Alphabet to support Oracle's use of copyrighted programming code to charge more than $ 8 billion in royalties for the Android operating system Google.
Previously, Google challenged a ruling of the Court of Appeal. The Court of Appeal ruled that Google's Android system contains some Java programming code that Oracle has violated Oracle's copyright.
A federal jury has said that Google copied code is legal "fair use", but the appeals court overturned that ruling.
Federal Solicitor General Noel - file Francisco (Noel Francisco) Friday submitted by Google may reduce the possibility of a hearing in the Supreme Court. Francisco said that despite the appeals court ruling "is not no doubt," but he is correct.
Francisco said that Google "verbatim copy of the 11,500 lines of computer code, and code complexity inherent in the structure and organization to help its competitive commercial products."
The Supreme Court usually adopt recommendations on the federal General Counsel pending appeal. The judges may decide whether to accept the case in October or November.
Google believes that if the decision is not to overthrow the Court of Appeal, will develop new applications more difficult.
Google's chief legal officer Kent - Walker (Kent Walker) said in an emailed statement that "hundreds of industry experts believe that developers should be able to create new applications on the old platform, but not limited certain one the company."
Walker said, "Let the current ruling into effect, the existing business might be helpful, but it does not recognize the importance of interoperability (inter-operability) of. Interoperability promotes competition, new products and services paving the way. "
Java programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, Oracle acquired in 2010 prior to the company, the language allows developers to write its so-called "write once, run anywhere" program.
Oracle said its API is freely available to those who want to build applications that run on computers and mobile devices are. But the company said that for competing platforms or embed electronic equipment company, using its application programming interfaces need to be licensed.
Oracle said the Supreme Court, Google refused permission, then "copy the works of the best-known part to a competing platform. Naturally, this caused incalculable damage to the Oracle market. This is typical of copyright infringement. "
Source: Sina Technology