As a very long-running saga nears its end, Google has won a major victory over Oracle in the US Supreme Court, which has ruled that the search giant did not violate a key Java patent – owned by Oracle courtesy of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 – in Android. Oracle originally sued Google over Java copyright and patents in 2010 and there have been many hearings since, with Google losing a major round in the battle in 2018. The scope of the legal action has been reduced over time – the first lawsuits covered seven patents and a copyright claim, but by 2012 the case centered on copyright for 37 Java APIs, consisting of less than 12,000 lines…