Remember when Google won the lawsuit against Oracle for Android's copyright infringement on Java? That ruling, which was from a Districts court in San Francisco, has been overruled by a Federal Appeals court, which has practically rubbished the former's decision. The new ruling states that Oracle's Java APIs, the ones it acquired as a part of its Sun Microsystems acquisition, do fall under copyright and hence, a new trial on fair use and damages will follow. This is a big blow to Google, purveyor of the omnipresent Android operating system, as it would need to face a fresh set of trials, again. Oracle, on the other hand, will see this as an opportunity to get back at the Mountain View company. District Judge Alsup's ruling on the 2012 lawsuit between the two tech giants declared that Oracle's Java API packages do not come under copyrightability, which is what Google had argued for. Oracle was obviously not happy with the result and took it to the Federal Appeals court, which has specifically agreed with Oracle's counter argument that the Java API packages are indeed copyrightable. This is what the ruling reads - "Oracle asserts that all of the trial court's conclusions regarding copyrightability ...
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