February, 2020. The ongoing dispute between Google and Oracle over the Java computer language, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, has attracted the attention of the music publishing industry. The Songwriters’ Guild of America (SGA) filed an amicus brief before the US Supreme Court in...
U.S. Court of Appeals Guts Google’s “Fair Use” Defense against Oracle’s Copyright Infringement Claim March 27, 2018 The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, reviewing the long record in this case in a 58-page opinion, concluded that Google’s copying was a “superseding use [that] is inherently unfair.”...
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit Fine Tunes post – AIA “On Sale Bar” to Patentability: Helsinn v. Teva ( Fed. Cir. May 1, 2017) This case is important because it further clarifies the standard (as in making more strict) when a sale of a product...
May 2016. Copyright Law. ORACLE v. GOOGLE (ND Ca). A Jury in the Federal District Court, ND California Finds Google’s Use of Android in certain Java “Declaring Code” that is Owned by Oracle is Fair Use. This was a copyright and patent case brought against Google...
The judiciary has breathed life back into innumerable computer-related patent claims that were considered moribund. The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit reversed its precedent regarding whether a computer method claim, where some steps are performed by one party and the rest by another, may nonetheless...
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit has significantly strengthened U.S. copyright protection of computer programs. The Court reversed and remanded the Oracle v. Google case. Oracle sued Google alleging that the Android platform infringed its copyrights in the JAVA computer language “API’s” (among other claims)....