There&#x27;s nothing to infer from a denial of a petition for certiorari, and there&#x27;s certainly no precedential weight to it. And there&#x27;s actually precedential weight to the fact that a denial has none :)<p>It is true that they implicitly affirmed the decision in this particular case, but as to the larger question of copyrightability of APIs, as I mention above, the reasoning for denial could just as easily be they didn&#x27;t think this case would be a good test for that question for whatever reason.<p>Wikipedia cites a few cases in which the Supreme Court has explicitly stated this in [1] (see paragraph starting with &quot;Conversely...&quot;)<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Certiorari#Federal_courts" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Certiorari#Federal_courts</a>