Essentially, the US Solicitor General says that the lower court ruling in favor of Oracle should stand. And Google should pursue a "fair use" defense of their adoption of the Java standard library APIs.<p>Hypothetical worse case for Google and Android: the US Supreme Court refuses to hear the case, and then Google subsequently also loses a "fair use" defense. Oracle then is awarded big damages and the Android ecosystem is hurt bad.<p>Oracle wants smartphone vendors to use its version of Java.