In a narrowly drawn, yet significant decision, the Supreme Court reversed the Federal Circuit and ruled that Google LLC’s (“Google”) copying of some of the Sun Java Application Programming Interface ...

Microsoft predicted in 2020 that 100 million new apps would be created yearly, leading us to develop more applications in five years than during the last 40 years. This prediction was based on ...

Google and Oracle’s argument before the Supreme Court last October left opponents of API copyrights extremely nervous. For the previous decade, Google had been arguing in lower courts that it didn’t ...

Application program interfaces (APIs) form bridges between applications, enabling programs to talk to each other across differing code bases and hardwares. But in the wrong hands, APIs can inflict ...

Jinghua Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Yi Yang (Institute of ...