The most important decision Keker & Van Nest’s Robert Van Nest made in defending Google Inc. in its copyright rematch with Silicon Valley rival Oracle Corp. was to cede ground.

Before the May 2016 trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Van Nest convinced Google to stipulate that it infringed copyrighted elements of Oracle’s Java computer code to build the hugely profitable Android mobile operating system.

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