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Sorry, but you can see the SSO for yourself
Authored by: Ian Al on Saturday, April 28 2012 @ 10:24 AM EDT
Found it!
In this case, the SSO of the 37 API packages is manifested, in part, in a hierarchy of named packages, classes, methods, and other elements such as interfaces and fields.
and,
To meaningfully evaluate the SSO of the API packages, the jury will need to consider the named elements as part of the structure. Without the named elements, the upper portions of the hierarchy (everything above the method declarations) would be incomprehensible:
As I understand it, Oracle are accusing Google of copyright violation of the Java SE API Specification.
Dr. Reinhold, Chief Java Architect at Oracle, provided the following example showing the hierarchy of some of the classes in the “java.nio.channels” package
He did not show how that hierarchy was copied from the asserted copyright protected document. If he is asserting that the hierarchy was derived from an arrangement of files then that fails to meet the judge's definition of creative expression fixated in a medium. More so if that was an idea of a hierarchy gleaned from a copyright document.

I can see that, by making a geek stare at all that API static, he will eventually see images, but they have not shown where that is protected in their copyright stuff.

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Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid!

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