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Intellectual Property

May 25, 2016

Google attorney defends his client as an innovator against Oracle's infringement claims

After two weeks of a trial devoid of emotion, Google Inc.'s lead attorney Robert Van Nest hit the parched jury in the Oracle-Google copyright infringement trial Monday with a shower of it.

By Tim O'Connor
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - After two weeks of a trial devoid of emotion, Google Inc.'s lead attorney Robert Van Nest hit the parched jury in the Oracle-Google copyright infringement trial Monday with a shower of it.

Responding for the first time to Oracle Corp. lead attorney's Peter Bicks' repeated deriding of Alphabet Inc.-owned Google's defense as "the fair use excuse," Van Nest called upon some hometow...

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