For the second time the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, (CAFC) has ruled in the case of Oracle v. Google, the software copyright lawsuit involving Google’s use of application program interfaces or APIs. The most recent CAFC ruling overturns the results of the May, 2016 jury trial heard by the US District Court for the Northern District of California in the matter of Oracle America Inc, v. Google Inc., 10cv3561.
As reported in World Intellectual Property Review, Ocean Tomo, “Ocean Tomo (which was hired by Oracle) estimated that Oracle was seeking nearly $10 billion in damages and profits in a pre-trial report. The estimate included $475 million in damages and $8.9 billion for recovered profits from Google’s sales of the allegedly infringing products.”