San Francisco, Aug 9 (TIWN) As Google and Cloud major Oracle look forward to the US Supreme Court hearing on October 7 into a decade-long copyright legal battle, the search engine giant has filed a supplemental brief to augment its position, saying a decision in Oracle's favour would limit consumers' freedom to use technologies on a range of devices.

The supplemental brief was filed this week in a long-standing case where Oracle has blamed Google for "copyright infringement" where it "copied Java APIs to build the Android smartphone operating system".

After Oracle acquired Java in 2010, it sued Google for using its software interfaces.

In 2018, an appeals court in the US ruled that Google violated copyright laws when it used Oracle's open-source Java software to build the Android platform.

In a fresh blog post this week, Kent Walker who is SVP of Global Affairs at Google pitches for "interoperability" that has let software developers build on each other's work.