REUTERS: The U.S. Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc's Google a major victory on Monday, ruling that its use of Oracle Corp's software code to build the Android operating system that runs most of the world's smartphones did not violate federal copyright law.
The ruling spares Google of a potentially massive damages verdict. Oracle had been seeking more than US$8 billion, but renewed estimates went as high as US$20 billion to US$30 billion, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. Dorian Daley, Oracle's executive vice president and general counsel, said that with the ruling"the Google platform just got bigger and market power greater" and"the barriers to entry higher and the ability to compete lower."
The ruling sidestepped the question over whether Oracle's code was entitled to copyright protection in the first place.
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