The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday invited the Obama administration to weigh in on whether it should hear arguments in the ongoing dispute between Google and Oracle over Java copyrights. U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. “is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States,” reads the SCOTUS memo. The move is a response to Google’s October petition for a writ of certiorari following a May 2014 federal circuit court decision in favor of Oracle.
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SCOTUS Seeks DoJ Input on Google-Oracle Java Dispute
Posted by: Katherine Noyes January 13, 2015 09:39 AMThe Supreme Court of the United States on Monday invited the Obama administration to weigh in on whether it should hear arguments in the ongoing dispute between Google and Oracle over Java copyrights. U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, Jr. “is invited to file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States,” reads the SCOTUS memo. The move is a response to Google’s October petition for a writ of certiorari following a May 2014 federal circuit court decision in favor of Oracle.