Intellectual Property
May 10, 2016
Judge decides pivotal jury instructions as Oracle-Google trial opens
Fair use is the only issue on the table for the 10 jurors who will hear the retrial of the copyright case between Oracle Corp. and Alphabet Inc.-owned Google.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Cupcake. Froyo. And, of course, ice cream sandwich.
All tasty kids' treats.
For technology titans Oracle Corp. and Alphabet Inc.-owned Google, however, they're not snacks but billion dollar Android platforms that used slices of Oracle's Java software code in their design.
Jurors will have to decide whether Google's use of Oracle's lines of code was an illegal infringement on the Re...
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