United States Federal Circuit

In a copyright dispute involves 37 packages of computer source code in which plaintiff alleges that defendant's Android mobile operating system infringed plaintiff's copyrights, judgment in favor of defendant, except with respect to a specific computer routine called "rangeCheck" code and eight decompiled files, is: 1) reversed in part and remanded with regard to the district court's copyrightability determination, where the declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the source code packages are entitled to copyright protection so the jury's infringement finding as to the 37 packages should be reinstated; 2) remanded in part, where because the jury deadlocked on defendant's fair use, this defense must be reconsidered in light of the infringement decision; but 3) affirmed in part as to the district court's decisions: (a) granting plaintiff's motion for judgment as a matter of law (JMOL) as to the eight decompiled Java files that defendant copied into Android, and (b) denying defendant's motion for JMOL with respect to the rangeCheck function.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2014
• Published 05/09/2014

Judges

• O’MALLEY

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

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