Intellectual Property
Jun. 1, 2016
Why did the jury rule for Google?
Larry Ellison's late decision to sue Google might have convinced jurors that Oracle merely wanted payday for Google's success with Android. By Pamela Samuelson
Without interviewing the jurors individually, one cannot really know why they decided that Google's fair use defense should prevail in the $9 billion software copyright lawsuit that Oracle brought against the maker of the Android platform for Google's reuse of 37 components (known as packages) from the Java Application Program Interface (API).
What evidence might have made a difference to the jury? First, Larry Ellison, O...
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