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Intellectual Property

May 12, 2016

Google tries its 'fair use' argument again in Java retrial

Innovation, hard work, and the fair use of a sprinkling of freely shared Java computer code helped Google build the $42 billion colossus of the Android mobile device market, Alphabet Inc.'s lead attorney said Tuesday in trial.

By Tim O'Connor
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO ? Innovation, hard work, and the fair use of a sprinkling of freely shared Java computer code helped Google build the $42 billion colossus of the mobile device market, Android, Alphabet Inc.'s lead attorney said Tuesday in opening statements of a closely-watched trial.

"Google did this themselves, and they did it the right way," Keker & Van Nest LLP partner Robert A. Van Nest said...

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