US Supreme Court hears Google bid to end Oracle copyright lawsuit

Oracle accused Google of copying thousands of lines of computer code from its popular Java programming language without a license in order to make Android

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether to protect Alphabet Inc's Google from a long-running lawsuit by Oracle Corp accusing it of infringing Oracle copyrights to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world's smartphones.
 

The shorthanded court, down one justice following the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg last month, began hearing oral arguments in Google's appeal of a lower court ruling reviving the lawsuit in which Oracle has sought at least $8 billion in damages. The arguments were conducted by teleconference because of the coronavirus pandemic.
 

A jury cleared Google in 2016, but the US