Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., No. 13-1021 (Fed. Cir. May 9, 2014)

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This copyright dispute involves 37 packages of co m- puter source code . T he parties have often refer red to these groups of computer programs, individually or collec- tively, as “application programming interfaces, ” or API packages, but it is their content, not their name, that matters. The predecessor of Oracle America, Inc. (“Ora- cle”) wrote t hese and other API packages in the Java programming language , and Oracle licenses them on various terms for others to use.