“Google’s use of the Java API packages was not fair,” appeals court rules Oracle wants $8.8 billion, but that’s now for a lower court to determine.

The Java APIs that Google used to develop Android were protected by copyright law, a court has ruled -- now Google has defend its moves as "fair use" or potentially pay Oracle billions.

"As to the 37 packages, the Java and Android libraries are organized in the same basic way but all of the chapters in Android have been written with implementations different from Java but solving ...