Google asks U.S. Supreme Court to end Oracle copyright case

Alphabet Inc`s Google on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to free it from a billion-dollar copyright case brought by Oracle Corp that dates to 2010.

Google urged the high court to rule that its copying of Oracle`s Java programming language to create the Android operating system was permissible under U.S. copyright law.

A jury cleared Google in 2016, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed that verdict in March 2018 and set the stage for a jury trial to determine monetary damages.

Google said the Federal Circuit`s ruling in favour of Oracle was a "devastating one-two punch at the software industry" that would chill innovation.

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