Oracle Victory in Copyright Case Has Seeds for a Google Appeal

A federal appeals court decision that Alphabet Inc.'s Google infringed Oracle America Inc. copyrights when it wrote its Android mobile operating system contains grist for a potential Google appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The case revolves around on whether Google’s copying of a portion of Oracle’s Java software code for its Android operating system was a fair use of copyrighted material. A San Francisco jury and judge ruled in Google’s favor, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed March 27, in a victory for Oracle.

The appeals court’s rejection of several lower court factual findings, ...