This can cut both ways. Certainly parts of the Java API are essentially copied (SSO) from APIs they did not license. Google should be able to argue their rights

This can cut both ways. Certainly parts of the Java API are essentially copied (SSO) from APIs they did not license. Google should be able to argue their rights are terminated under fruit-of-a-poisoned-tree doctrine. But realistically, I can't see much except federal corruption in the decision to hold the copyrightable SSO higher than the functional requirements. In this digital age, that is a boot-licking verdict. Alsup got it right.