WASHINGTON — Following a monthlong holiday break, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday added no new cases to the term’s argument docket and continued the suspense as to whether it will take up the constitutional question of same-sex marriages.
Menawhile, the high court created the possibility of a match-up next term between high-tech giants: Google Inc. and Oracle Corp. The justices called for the views of the U.S. solicitor general in Google v. Oracle, a billion-dollar legal battle over whether Oracle can claim copyright protection for coding language that Google used in implementing its Android operating system. The Federal Circuit held that those Java application programming interfaces are copyrightable.
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