The CAFC is fscking insane. This decision is giving me a migraine just trying to figure out what the implications for software, system, and hardware engineering.
I can tell you what is the decision outright - it is more lawyers.
We now have officially a precedent where a qualitative opinion by a lawyer is required in any case related to copyright infringement on software. This is as subjective as subjective gets, as idiotic as only the USA judicial system can produce it and to top it all it makes any software legal issues strictly a matter of "the best judicial system money can buy".
Frankly, if you are writing software and working to an API - I suggest you move to the other side of the pond and NOT to the UK as it will probably be made an IPR vassal state of the USA as soon as 2020.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
