It&#x27;s unclear, since this case is basically making all software illegal in retrospect. Browsers freely implement each others&#x27; APIs; SQL servers all use the same API developed by a myriad of entities; the Unix API has been copied over and over and it&#x27;s impossible to determine ownership. This was a really, really, really bad decision, and it will get worse if Google loses the fair use case.<p>If you thought software patents were bad, you ain&#x27;t seen nothing yet.