The search engine giant won the original case against Oracle, which was brought by the database maker in 2010.

In May this year, an appeals court reversed the ruling, saying that Oracle could copyright parts of the programming language Java. A three-judge panel ruled that APIs are  copyrightable, the opposite of a finding rendered by Judge William Alsup in June 2012.

While the Google case has been docketed with the Supreme Court, no details are yet available.

In the original case,  Oracle had accused Google of copying Java application programming interface (API) designs into the APIs of its Android mobile operating system; basing Android class libraries on Java API designs; and copying from Java code into Android code.

It had also alleged that Google had violated its patents – seven were originally cited, but five were overturned before the trial, and only two were considered.

The trial began on April 16 and in the first phase, the jury concluded that while Google was guilty of copyright violation, it could not decide whether this was covered by the principle of fair use or not.

The second phase of the trial, dealing with patents, went decisively in favour of Google, with the jury concluding that Oracle's patents were in no way violated. In the final phase of the trial, Justice Alsup ruled that APIs were not copyrightable.