ORACLE AMERICA INC v. GOOGLE LLC (2021)

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

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

2017-1118, 2017-1202

Decided: May 14, 2021

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

E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Peter A. Bicks, Andrew D. Silverman, Attorney, Lisa Simpson, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, New York, NY, Melanie L. Bostwick, Mark S. Davies, Esq., Jeremy Peterman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Washington, DC, Dale M. Cendali, Joshua L. Simmons, Attorney, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, Kelsi Brown Corkran, Attorney, Washington, DC, Dorian Estelle Daley, Esq., General Counsel, Deborah Kay Miller, Associate General Counsel, Matthew Sarboraria, Esq., Associate General Counsel, Oracle America, Inc., Oracle Legal Department, Redwood Shores, CA, Annette Louise Hurst, Esq., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, Joshua L. Simmons, Attorney, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant Daryl Joseffer, U.S. Chamber Litigation Center, Washington, DC, Christa M. Anderson, Steven A. Hirsch, Esq., Attorney, Reid P. Mullen, Esq., Attorney, Robert A. Van Nest, Esq., Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP, San Francisco, CA, Bruce William Baber, King & Spalding LLP, Atlanta, GA, Renny F. Hwang, Google Inc., Mountainview, CA, Michael Soonuk Kwun, Esq., Attorney, Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLP, San Francisco, CA, Anne M. Voigts, Attorney, King & Spalding LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Marisa Maleck, King & Spalding LLP, Washington, DC, for Defendant-Cross-Appellant Kenneth L. Doroshow, Erica Lauren Ross, Attorney, Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae The Copyright Alliance Daniel J. Brooks, Scarola Malone & Zubatov LLP, New York, NY, Annemarie Hassett, NYU School of Law, New York, NY, Charles R. Macedo, Amster Rothstein & Ebenstein LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus Curiae New York Intellectual Property Law Association Jared Bobrow, Esq., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Menlo Park, CA, Amanda Branch, Esq., Attorney, Aaron Y. Huang, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Redwood Shores, CA, for Amici Curiae Eugene H. Spafford, Zhi Ding, Adam Porter, Ken Castleman Steven Thomas Cottreau, Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae Scott McNealy, Brian Sutphin Marc Robert Lewis, Evangeline Zimmerman Burbidge, Attorney, Lewis & Llewellyn LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Ralph Oman Robert H. Rotstein, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, Los Angeles, CA, J. Matthew Williams, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., Independent Film & Television Alliance 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, Andrew Kim, Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, George M. Borkowski, Esq., Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Amicus Curiae Recording Industry Association of America William M. Jay, Andrew Kim, Goodwin Procter LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Association of American Publishers Rebecca Murphy Thompson, General Counsel, Competitive Carriers Association, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Competitive Carriers Association Antigone Gabriella Peyton, Cloudigy Law PLLC, Tysons Corner, VA, for Amicus 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, Attorney, Scott J. Sholder, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, New York, NY, for Amicus 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 Richard L. Rainey, Attorney, Peter Andrew Swanson, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae BSA I The Software Alliance Jonathan Band, Esq., Jonathan Band PLLC, Washington, DC, Matthew Schruers, Counsel, Computer & Communications Industry Association, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Computer & Communications Industry Association Michael Barclay, Attorney, Mitchell L. Stoltz, Esq., Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation Meredith Filak Rose, Public Knowledge, Washington, DC, Mitchell L. Stoltz, Esq., Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Public Knowledge Marcia Hofmann, Zeitgeist Law PC, San Francisco, CA, for Amicus Curiae Mozilla Corporation Richard M. Brunell, Hilliard & Shadowen LLP, Austin, TX, Shubha Ghosh, Syracuse University College of Law, Syracuse, NY, for Amicus Curiae American Antitrust Institute Jeffrey A. Lamken, Michael Gregory Pattillo, Jr., MoloLamken LLP, Washington, DC, Lisa Wang Bohl, Attorney, MoloLamken LLP, Chicago, IL, Rayiner Hashem, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Microsoft Corporation, Red Hat, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. Jason Michael Schultz, NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic, New York, NY, for Amici Curiae Timothy K. Armstrong, Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ann Bartow, Oren Bracha, Annemarie Bridy, Dan L. Burk, Michael A. Carrier, 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, Pamela Samuelson, Jessica Silbey, Esq., Joshua David Sarnoff, Lea Shaver, Christopher Jon Sprigman, Katherine J. Strandburg, Rebecca Tushnet, Jennifer M. Urban, Esq. Jason Michael Schultz, NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic, New York, NY, Catherine Crump, Samuelson Clinic, Berkeley Law School, Berkeley, CA, for Amicus Curiae Clark D. Asay, Pamela Samuelson Phillip R. Malone, Attorney, Stanford Law School, Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic, Mills Legal Clinic, Stanford, CA, Jeffrey Theodore Pearlman, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, 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 Mark A. Lemley, Joseph Gratz, Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, CA, Clement Roberts, Esq., Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Amici Curiae Engine Advocacy, The App Developers Alliance, Github, Inc. Meredith Filak Rose, Public Knowledge, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae The R Street Institute