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ORACLE AMERICA, INC. v. HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE

No. 19-15506.

971 F.3d 1042 (2020)

ORACLE AMERICA, INC., a Delaware Corporation; Oracle International Corporation, a California Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 20, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory G. Garre (argued), Elana Nightingale Dawson , and Charles S. Dameron , Latham & Watkins LLP, Washington, D.C.; Christopher S. Yates , Christopher B. Campbell , and Brittany N. Lovejoy , Latham & Watkins LLP, San Francisco, California; Dorian Estelle Daley and Deborah Kay Miller , Oracle America Inc., Redwood City, California; Jeffrey S. Ross , Oracle America Inc., Burlington, California; Dale M. Cendali and Joshua L. Simmons , Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, New York; for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Mark A. Perry (argued), Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Washington, D.C.; Samuel G. Liverside , Joseph A. Gorman , and Ilissa S. Samplin , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, California; Jeffrey T. Thomas and Blaine H. Evanson , Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Irvine, California; Vaishali Udupa , Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Reston, Virginia; Deanna L. Kwong , Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, San Jose, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

William A. Isaacson and Samuel S. Ungar , Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, Washington, D.C.; Keith Kupferschmid and Terry Hart , Copyright Alliance, Washington, D.C.; for Amicus Curiae Copyright Alliance.

Mark E. Ferguson , Bartlit Beck LLP, Chicago, Illinois; Abigail M. Hinchcliff , Bartlit Beck LLP, Denver, Colorado; for Amici Curiae Repair Association and Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and ANDREW D. HURWITZ, Circuit Judges, and C. ASHLEY ROYAL, District Judge.

OPINION

Oracle America, Inc. and Oracle International Corporation (together, Oracle) own the proprietary Solaris software operating system. Oracle periodically releases patches for this software to address functionality, improve performance, and resolve security issues. As is relevant here, Oracle restricts use...

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