by Ted Sabety | Apr 5, 2021 | Information Technology & Enterprise Software Procurement, Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation, Software Procurement & Licensing
April 5, 2021. Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. 593 U.S. __(2021). We wrote last year about the ongoing legal battle between Google and Oracle over Java computer language and its potential to create copyright over a computer language. The US Supreme Court handed...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 9, 2020 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
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...
by Ted Sabety | Mar 9, 2020 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
February, 2020. The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a finding of willful patent infringement against Apple where the willfulness was found to commence upon the jury verdict of infringement by the lower court. This finding was made despite Apple having a right to appeal...
by Ted Sabety | Apr 17, 2018 | Information Technology & Enterprise Software Procurement
Trump Signs the CLOUD Act, Microsoft Complies and the U.S. Supreme Court Dismisses U.S. v. Microsoft, but the Forecast Remains Cloudy. April 17, 2018 The Supreme Court dismissed as moot the case United States v. Microsoft Corp. (584 U.S. ___ (2018)) in light of the...
by Ted Sabety | May 22, 2017 | Patent, Trademark & Copyright Litigation
In the case TC Heartland v Kraft Foods, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed cases that permitted patent plaintiffs to sue companies for patent infringement in any of a wide range of federal courts in locales where “jurisdiction” over the defendant could be established....