Google, Computer-Related Inventions

Generative AI - Copyright Overview Part 1

Venable LLP on 2/9/2023

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is a technology promising to disrupt how artwork is created, software is developed, and text is written. This disruption brings with it a host of new legal questions surrounding...more

Data Engine Technologies LLC v. Google LLC

Knobbe Martens on 10/11/2018

Federal Circuit Summary - Before Judges Reyna, Bryson, and Stoll. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Summary: A claim that recites a specific method for navigating through...more

When Can Common Sense be Relied Upon to Find an Invention Obvious?

Troutman Pepper on 8/23/2016

All patent practitioners recognize that a single prior art reference can be used to reject claims in an obviousness rejection. However, the issue is whether the Patent Office must provide additional evidence, above and beyond...more

Google’s Fair Use Defense Thwarts Oracle’s Attempt to Recover $9 Billion in Copyright Case

Weintraub Tobin on 6/6/2016

In a high-profile case, a jury recently found that Google’s use of portions of Oracle’s Java software code was allowable under the fair use doctrine and thus did not constitute copyright infringement. Oracle sought as much...more

Still Can’t Search This: B.C. Court of Appeal Affirms Global Restraining Order Against Google

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP on 6/15/2015

In 2014, the B.C. Supreme Court ordered Google Inc. (Google) and Google Canada Corporation (Google Canada) to remove all of a company’s websites from its search results. As we noted in our June 2014 Blakes Bulletin: Can’t...more

Software Copyrights in an Evolving Digital World

Knobbe Martens on 5/5/2015

In This Presentation: - Software Copyright & Interoperability - Program Language and Function Calls - An Example API in Java - Oracles’ Pattern of APIs - Google’s Copying - Questions? ..Copyright Issues -...more

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