WASHINGTON — The World Series of IP cases is headed for extra innings.
A Federal Circuit panel appeared Wednesday to strongly disagree with U.S. District Judge William Alsup’s ruling last year that basic elements of the Java programming language cannot be copyrighted. That would hand a big win to Oracle, which accuses Google of stealing the so-called declaring code from its Java application program interface and riding it to spectacular success with its Android mobile operating system.
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