Appellate courts don’t like overturning jury verdicts. Until this week, none is known to have overturned a jury verdict of fair use in a copyright infringement case.

But Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe partner E. Joshua Rosenkranz had two things going for him when he asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to throw out Google’s fair use jury verdict in its mega-high-stakes dispute with Oracle Corp.