After its stinging defeat last year, Oracle Corp. is relying on heavy-hitting appellate lawyers at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Kirkland & Ellis to take the company’s copyright fight with Google Inc. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
In an 89-page brief filed Monday, Oracle asked the appeals court to revive claims that Google infringed its copyrights by incorporating parts of the Java programming language into the Android mobile operating system. After a much-hyped San Francisco jury trial, U.S. District Judge William Alsup dismissed Oracle’s copyright claims in June 2012, ruling that the parts of Java at issue — known as “application programming interfaces,” or APIs — aren’t eligible for copyright protection.
