With $9 billion on the line, Google Inc. never lost faith in its lawyers at Keker & Van Nest. Even as plaintiff Oracle Corp. dumped its original trial team in the high profile copyright infringement suit, Google stayed the course. That decision paid off late last week after a second trial in the case, when a jury sided with the online search giant.
Following two weeks of argument and witness testimony, and another three days of deliberation, a San Francisco federal jury handed down a verdict on May 26 in Google’s favor. The jury held that when the online search giant relied on elements of the Java programming language—which was developed by Oracle predecessor Sun Microsystems—to build Google’s Android operating system, that counted as fair use under federal copyright law.
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