18 May 2021PatentsRajvinder Jagdev and Peter FitzPatrick

Google v Oracle: a UK perspective

The 11-year battle between Oracle and Google has finally come to an end, with the US Supreme Court deciding that Google’s copying of the structure of the Java core application programming interfaces (APIs) constituted fair use under US copyright law. The court appears to have prioritised interoperability and reuse over the rights of the copyright holder and to have given the green light to the copying of the structure of APIs.

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