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Intellectual Property

Apr. 17, 2013

Ian C. Ballon

Greenberg Traurig LLP Los Angeles, East Palo Alto Copyright, trademark


Last year, Ballon scored a win for Google Inc. in helping to defeat copyright and patent infringement claims in a case that is expected to have a significant impact for the future of mobile entertainment.


At issue were Oracle Corp.'s allegations that Google's Android operating system infringed copyrighted elements of its Java programming language. Oracle America Inc. v. Google Inc., 10-3561 (N.D. Cal., filed Aug. 12, 2010).


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