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Intellectual Property

Apr. 17, 2013

Robert A. Van Nest

Keker & Van Nest LLP San Francisco Patent, copyright


In a trial against Oracle Corp. and its impressive legal team, Van Nest was able to persuade both judge and jury and score a total defense win for client Google Inc. in a major copyright and patent infringement case last spring.


Oracle sought more than $1 billion in damages and an injunction on infringement claims over elements of its Java programming language, which it had acquired when buying Sun Microsystems Inc. Google uses elements of Java in its Android ope...

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