[sounds]

This law suit is frivolous based on the assumption that APIs are not copyrightable (a very reasonable assumption in 2009).

[icebraining]

But the result of the trial was that they are copyrightable, so clearly it wasn't frivolous.

[geofft]

The appellate court ruled that the law is that APIs are copyrightable, and sent it back. The jury decision here was that Google made fair use of a copyrighted API, not that APIs aren't copyrightable.