Federal Circuit Denies Google Rehearing In Java Fair Use Dispute With Oracle

Mealey's (August 29, 2018, 12:20 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 28 per curiam ruling, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied without comment Google LLC’s petition to rehear a March 2018 panel decision finding that Google’s use of certain Java code in creating its Android smartphone operating system was not fair use and infringed copyrights belonging to Oracle America Inc. (Oracle America Inc. v. Google LLC, Nos. 17-1118, -1202, Fed. Cir.)....