Document Type
Amicus Brief
Publication Date
1-2020
Case Name
Google LLC v. Oracle Am., Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1183 (2021)
Abstract
The Java SE declarations of this case are simply a language of commands. As an application programming interface, or API, they exhibit features common to any language: a structured vocabulary and grammatical syntaxes, which a computer system understands as instructions to perform predefined tasks. What Oracle accuses as infringement is “reimplementation,” namely the building of a system, in this case Google’s Android platform, that repurposes the same words and syntaxes of the Java declarations.
Recommended Citation
Duan, Charles and Rose, Meredith F., "Brief fof the R Street Institutte, Public Knowledge, and the Niskanen Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner" (2020). Amicus Briefs. 32.
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_briefs/32
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