“Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules

Enlarge / Signage stands at the Oracle Corp. headquarters campus in Redwood City, California, on March 14, 2016. (credit: Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The case of Oracle v. Google is Silicon Valley's lawsuit that will seemingly never die.

On Tuesday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Oracle, finding that Google may owe billions in damages. Nearly 7.5 years after the original lawsuit was filed, the case will now be sent back down to federal court in San Francisco to figure out how much Google should pay.

"Google's use of the Java API packages was not fair," the court ruled Tuesday.

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