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Intellectual Property

May 20, 2016

Oracle attacks hostile witness with old emails in copyright trial

Oracle Corp.'s lead lawyer Annette L. Hurst fired away at a hostile witness Wednesday, confronting him with an email suggesting that Alphabet Inc.-owned Google was ripping her client off by using Java in its Android operating system.

By Tim O'Connor
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp.'s lead lawyer Annette L. Hurst fired away at a hostile witness Wednesday, confronting him with an email suggesting that Alphabet Inc.-owned Google was ripping her client off by using Java in its Android operating system.

Stefano Mazzocchi, a Google software engineer and former director of the Apache Software Foundation, was grilled by Hurst, who drilled into h...

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