ORACLE AMERICA, INC. v. GOOGLE LLC

2017-1118, 2017-1202.

886 F.3d 1179 (2018)

ORACLE AMERICA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant v. GOOGLE LLC, Defendant-Cross-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

Decided: March 27, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. JOSHUA ROSENKRANZ , Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY, argued for plaintiff-appellant. Also represented by PETER A. BICKS , MATTHEW LEE BUSH , ANDREW D. SILVERMAN , LISA SIMPSON ; MELANIE L. BOSTWICK , KELSI BROWN CORKRAN , MARK S. DAVIES , JEREMY PETERMAN , Washington, DC; ANNETTE LOUISE HURST , San Francisco, CA; DALE M. CENDALI , JOSHUA L. SIMMONS , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY; RUCHIKA AGRAWAL , DORIAN ESTELLE DALEY , DEBORAH KAY MILLER , MATTHEW SARBORARIA , Oracle America, Inc., Redwood Shores, CA.

DARYL JOSEFFER , King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC, argued for defendant-cross-appellant. Also represented by BRUCE WILLIAM BABER , Atlanta, GA; CHRISTA M. ANDERSON , STEVEN A. HIRSCH , MICHAEL SOONUK KWUN , REID P. MULLEN , ROBERT A. VAN NEST , Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, San Francisco, CA; RENNY F. HWANG , Google LLC, Mountain View, CA.

KENNETH L. DOROSHOW , Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae The Copyright Alliance. Also represented by ERICA LAUREN ROSS .

DANIEL J. BROOKS , Scarola Malone & Zubatov LLP, New York, NY, for amicus curiae New York Intellectual Property Law Association. Also represented by CHARLES R. MACEDO , Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, New York, NY; ANNEMARIE HASSETT , NYU School of Law, New York, NY.

JARED BOBROW , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for amici curiae Eugene H. Spafford, Zhi Ding, Adam Porter, Ken Castleman. Also represented by AMANDA BRANCH , AARON Y. HUANG .

STEVEN THOMAS COTTREAU , Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP, Washington, DC, for amici curiae Scott McNealy, Brian Sutphin.

MARC ROBERT LEWIS , Lewis & Llewellyn LLP, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Ralph Oman. Also represented by EVANGELINE ZIMMERMAN BURBIDGE .

ROBERT H. ROTSTEIN , Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for amici curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., Independent Film & Television Alliance. Also represented by J. MATTHEW WILLIAMS , Washington, DC.

DUNCAN W. CRABTREE-IRELAND , SAG-AFTRA, Los Angeles, CA, for amicus curiae Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

WILLIAM M. JAY , Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, for amici curiae Recording Industry Association of America, Association of American Publishers. Also represented by ANDREW KIM . Recording Industry Association of America also represented by GEORGE M. BORKOWSKI , Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, LLP, Los Angeles, CA.

REBECCA MURPHY THOMPSON , Competitive Carriers Association, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Competitive Carriers Association.

ANTIGONE GABRIELLA PEYTON , Protorae Law PLLC, Tysons, VA, for amici curiae Sandra Aistars, Matthew Barblan, Jon A. Baumgarten, Stephen Carlisle, Jon M. Garon, Hugh Hansen, Devlin Hartline, Jiarui Liu, Adam Mossoff, Raymond T. Nimmer, Eric Priest, Sean M. O'Connor, Mark F. Schultz.

LINDSAY WARREN BOWEN , Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, New York, NY, for amici curiae PACA, Digital Media Licensing Association, Inc., Graphic Artists Guild, National Press Photographers Association, North American Nature Photography Association, American Society of Media Photographers, Inc., American Photographic Artists, Professional Photographers of America. Also represented by SCOTT J. SHOLDER .

RICHARD L. RAINEY , Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae BSA | The Software Alliance. Also represented by PETER ANDREW SWANSON .

JONATHAN BAND , Jonathan Band PLLC, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae Computer & Communications Industry Association. Also represented by MATTHEW SCHRUERS , Computer & Communications Industry Association, Washington, DC.

MICHAEL BARCLAY , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge. Also represented by MITCHELL L. STOLTZ .

MARCIA HOFMANN , Zeitgeist Law PC, San Francisco, CA, for amicus curiae Mozilla Corporation.

RICHARD M. BRUNELL , American Antitrust Institute, Washington, DC, for amicus curiae American Antitrust Institute. Also represented by SHUBHA GHOSH , Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY.

JEFFREY A. LAMKEN , MoloLamken LLP, Washington, DC, for amici curiae Microsoft Corp., Red Hat, Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. Also represented by RAYINER HASHEM , MICHAEL GREGORY PATTILLO, JR. ; LISA WANG BOHL , Chicago, IL.

JASON MICHAEL SCHULTZ , NYU School of Law, New York, NY, for amici curiae Timothy K. Armstrong, Cark D. Asay, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ann Bartow, Oren Bracha, Annemarie Bridy, Dan L. Burk, Michael A. Carrier, Michael W. Carroll, Andrew Chin, Julie E. Cohen, Kevin Collins, Rebecca Curtin, Ben Depoorter, Roger Allan Ford, Brian L. Frye, Jim Gibson, Eric Goldman, James Grimmelmann, Peter Jaszi, Yvette Joy Liebesman, Jessica Litman, Brian J. Love, Michael J. Madison, Mark. P. McKenna, Joseph Scott Miller, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Tyler T. Ochoa, Aaron Perzanowski, Victoria F. Phillips, Arti K. Rai, Jerome H. Reichman, Michael Rustad, Matthew Sag, Pamela Samuelson, Jessica Sibley, Joshua David Sarnoff, Lea Shaver, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Katherine J. Strandburg, Rebecca Tushnet, Jennifer M. Urban.

PHILLIP R. MALONE , Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA, for amici curiae Harold Abelson, Tom Ball, Brian Behlendorf, Gordon Bell, Jon Bentley, Matthew Bishop, Joshua Bloch, Dan Boneh, Gilad Bracha, Eric Brewer, Frederick Brooks, Rick Cattell, Vinton G. Cerf, William Cook, Mark Davis, Miguel de Icaza, Jeffrey Dean, L. Peter Deutsch, Whitfield Diffie, David L. Dill, Lester Earnest, Brendan Eich, Dawson Engler, Martin Fowler, Neal Gafter, Robert Harper, John Hennessy, Tom Jennings, Alan Kay, Brian Kernighan, David Klausner, Ray Kurzweil, Kin Lane, Ed Lazowska, Doug Lea, Bob Lee, Sheng Liang, Barbara Liskov, Paul Menchini, Andrew W. Moore, James H. Morris, Peter Norvig, Martin Odersky, Tim Paterson, David Patterson, Alex Payne, Tim Peierls, Simon Phipps, Bill Pugh, Ronald L. Rivest, Curtis Schroeder, Robert Sedgewick, Mary Shaw, Barbara Simons, Dave Snigier, Alfred Z. Spector, Bjarne Stroustrup, Gerald Jay Sussman, Ivan E. Sutherland, Andrew Tanenbaum, Brad Templeton, Ken Thompson, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Andrew Tridgell, Jeffrey Ullman, Andries Van Dam, Guido Van Rossum, John Villasenor, Jan Vitek, Philip Wadler, James H. Waldo, Daniel S. Wallach, Peter J. Weinberger, Steve Wozniak, Frank Yellin. Also represented by JEFFREY THEODORE PEARLMAN .

MARK A. LEMLEY , Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, CA, for amici curiae Engine Advocacy, The App Developers Alliance, GitHub, Inc. Also represented by JOSEPH GRATZ , CLEMENT ROBERTS .

Before O'Malley, Plager, and Taranto, Circuit Judges.


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