Article
Brief fof the R Street Institutte, Public Knowledge, and the Niskanen Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner
Google LLC v. Oracle Am., Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1183 (2021)
Document Type
Amicus Brief
Publication Date
1-1-2020
Disciplines
Abstract
The Java SE declarations of this case are simply a language of commands. As an application programming interface, or API, they exhibit features common to any language: a structured vocabulary and grammatical syntaxes, which a computer system understands as instructions to perform predefined tasks. What Oracle accuses as infringement is “reimplementation,” namely the building of a system, in this case Google’s Android platform, that repurposes the same words and syntaxes of the Java declarations.
Citation Information
Charles Duan and Meredith F. Rose. "Brief fof the R Street Institutte, Public Knowledge, and the Niskanen Center as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioner" Google LLC v. Oracle Am., Inc., 141 S. Ct. 1183 (2021) (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles-duan/15/