Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal by Google in a case in which Oracle accused the tech giant of violating copyright laws when developing its Android mobile platform.
The high court's decision to hear the case came more than a year and a half after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled against Google, saying the company's unauthorized use of 11,500 lines of code in Oracle's open-source Java application programming interface was unfair as a matter of law.