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Washington (AP) - The online giant Google has fended off a billions-worthy lawsuit by the software company Oracle because of alleged copyright infringements in the Android smartphone system before the US Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court in Washington ruled that Google had not committed any legal violations and thus overruled a judgment from the lower instance.
This is a big victory for Google and its parent company Alphabet.
Oracle had demanded around nine billion dollars in compensation.
Background: Google used around 11,000 lines of software code in the Java programming language for Android.
Oracle, which bought Java in 2010 when it acquired Sun Microsystems, sued Google that same year.
The judge responsible had initially decided that the Java interfaces could not be protected by copyright.
However, this judgment was overturned in appeal proceedings.
The judges of the Supreme Court now decided with six to two votes in favor of Google.
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