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Of course they can. But appeals typically have little chance of success, and a case that has already gone all up the appeal chain once and had a complete retria
by revelation 10y ago
Of course they can. But appeals typically have little chance of success, and a case that has already gone all up the appeal chain once and had a complete retrial?
No way.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoIt hasn't had a complete retrial. In the first trial, the judge (Alsup) ruled that APIs cannot be copyrighted. Google also had a fair-use defense, but didn't waste time on the trial with that, because Alsup had already ruled that APIs could not be copyrighted. Oracle lost that trial. Oracle appealed, and at the appeals court won a ruling that APIs could be copyrighted. The case got sent back down for a trial that was only about the fair-use defense, not a complete retrial.