SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to decide Friday whether to review a copyright dispute between Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. that’s been dubbed the World Series of IP cases. But on Thursday the companies went before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to fight over a related claim that didn’t make the playoffs.
Oracle’s original case against Google, made famous by a 2012 trial before U.S. District Judge William Alsup, included a patent claim over software for speeding up execution of source code on a virtual machine. But that patent was dropped from the trial when Google persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine it. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board ultimately agreed with Google that a 1993 computer science article had anticipated the patent.
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