Intellectual Property
Jun. 7, 2012
Google lawyer won over jury and judge
Robert A. Van Nest used all of his charm, persuasive skills, and determination to find the right arguments to win what U.S. District Judge William Alsup described before as "the World Series of IP cases."
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Robert A. Van Nest spent weeks during his defense of Google Inc. against Oracle Corp.'s copyright claims hauling out an old filing cabinet to explain why his client was not liable for infringement.
The San Francisco-based name partner at litigation boutique Keker & Van Nest LLP was trying to explain Java application programming interface packages, known as APIs, and why Google should not be ...
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