Scholar Spotlight: Roger Blair’s Work on Vertical Integration
Research and scholarship are a cornerstone of antitrust policy. They are often the foundation for changes in antitrust law. These […]
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Google’s petition for review of the Federal Circuit’s decisions in 2014 and 2018 that the Android application program interface (“API”) infringed Oracle’s copyright in the Java API. Numerous posts concerning this decade-old litigation have appeared on DisCo. See here for a summary of the litigation, including links to other DisCo posts.
Significantly, the Supreme Court granted Google’s petition even though the Solicitor General filed a brief advising the Court to deny the petition. As is typical with such Orders, the Court did not explain its reason...
