Is Big Tech FRANDly to Competition?
This is a cross-post from Patent Progress by Charles Duan. Charles Duan is the Director of Technology and Innovation Policy […]
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...
