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AI Reporter - April 2025

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There were several notable developments in March in the AI copyright lawsuits previously reported here. Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic scored partial dismissals in their respective cases. These results show that the...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Once Bitten, Twice Sanctioned: Judge Figueredo Awards Attorney’s Fees to Google for Being Forced to File a Motion to Dismiss

On March 24, 2025, United States Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo granted-in-part Defendant Google LLC’s (“Google”) motion for sanctions, attorney’s fees, and costs against Plaintiff EscapeX IP, LLC (“EscapeX”) and its...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

There’s an Exception to Every Rule: Judge Schofield Finds a Comparison of the Plaintiff’s Patented System and the Accused System...

In a recently published opinion, Judge Lorna G. Schofield (S.D.N.Y.) found that it was appropriate to compare the accused system to a plaintiff’s commercial system embodying the asserted patent claims, rather than the patent...more

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The New York Times v. OpenAI: The Biggest IP Case Ever

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On December 27, 2023, the New York Times filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging massive copyright infringement. This promises to be the most high-stakes intellectual...more

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Borrower Beware: Landmark Copyright Infringement Decision Issued by the United States Supreme Court

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The United States Supreme Court recently issued its first opinion in the realm of copyright since its 2021 decision in Google v. Oracle, this time focusing not on software and source code, but on pop art and the publishing...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions

As part of the recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit took steps to return to normal operations. It began requiring live oral arguments in August 2022 and, by November,...more

International Lawyers Network

Supreme Court Finds Google’s Copying of Oracle’s APIs a Fair Use

A recent Supreme Court decision has finally put an end to the longstanding fight between Oracle and Google concerning Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted Java Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The Supreme Court’s...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Webinar] SCOTUS Copyright Fair Use Decision: Google vs. Oracle Recap and Takeaways - July 27th, 10:00 am - 11:00 am PT

After more than a decade of litigation that included multiple trials and appeals, the Supreme Court of the United States finally put an end to the copyright infringement case Oracle brought against Google. The case was about...more

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Podcast: The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)

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In this week's podcast of The Briefing from the IP Law Blog, attorneys Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v...more

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The Briefing by the IP Law Blog - Andy Warhol's Prince Prints: Not Fair Use!? (Part Two)

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In this week's episode of the Briefing from the IP Law Blog, Josh Escovedo and Scott Hervey discuss an update to the litigation over Andy Warhol's series of portraits of the artist Prince (Andy Warhol Foundation v Goldsmith)....more

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Supreme Court Expands Upon Software Fair Use in Google v. Oracle

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On April 5, 2021, after 10 years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court published its decision in the much-watched Google v. Oracle dispute. The Court held that use of certain “declaring code” from the Java API in the Android...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Not With a Bang but a Whimper

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In a non-precedential Order issued by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit—on remand from the US Supreme Court’s April 2021 decision upholding Google’s fair use defense to Oracle’s copyright infringement claim—the...more

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Google v. Oracle, Fair Use and the Decreasing Value of Code Over Time

Earlier this month, in what many consider the copyright case of the decade, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in Google v. Oracle. In it, the Court ruled that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of...more

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API Copying Now Fair Game in the Wake of Supreme Court’s Decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc.

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The decade-long dispute between Google LLC and Oracle America Inc. has now ended with the Supreme Court ruling 6-2 in favor of Google. This dispute concerned Google’s use of Oracle’s “declaring code” – software that provides...more

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Battle Royale: Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.

The question of fair use has been the subject of many notable court decisions, including one recent one from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals holding that Warhol’s use in the artwork of Lynn Goldsmith’s photographs wasn’t...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Google v. Oracle: SCOTUS Sides with Google on Fair Use, But Is The Ruling Narrower Than It Seems?

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On April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Google v. Oracle, ruling 6-2 in Google’s favor on the issue of fair use. So ends a decade-plus battle between two tech giants that many viewed as having the potential...more

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Copyright, Software and Fair Use of APIs: U.S. Supreme Court decides Google v. Oracle

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It is not an understatement to say that the economy is powered by software. So when a decision comes down from the U.S. Supreme Court on the extent to which software can be owned, it deservingly acquires “landmark case”...more

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SCOTUS Says 'Fair Use' in Google v. Oracle Copyright Battle

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In a 6–2 decision authored by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court of the United States reversed the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s 2018 ruling that Google’s use of Oracle’s Java application programming interface...more

Weintraub Tobin

Fair Use Shields Google In Its Copyright Battle With Oracle

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Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages. The battle began between these tech giants when Google designed its Android software platform for mobile...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Rules for Google in Landmark Decision Recognizing Fair Use of Computer Code

Court finds that Google's re-use of code from Oracle's Java API constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act - On April 5, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.,1 a...more

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Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.

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On April 5, 2021, the United States Supreme Court held that Google did not infringe on Oracle’s copyrights by copying 11,500 lines of Oracle’s Java SE API code....more

K&L Gates LLP

A Fair Use Tale, or All's Well That Ends: the U.S. Supreme Court Holds Google's Use of Java Code to Be a Fair Use under U.S....

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On 5 April 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved a major copyright dispute that had wound through the federal courts for over a decade. In a 6-2 decision written by Justice Breyer, the Supreme Court held that Google’s copying...more

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Copyright transformed: Supreme Court rules copying code from Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into new APIs is a fair use

On April 5, 2021, the US Supreme Court held in a 6-2 decision that Google’s copying of computer code from Oracle’s Application Program Interfaces (APIs) into new API’s used in Google’s Android™ operating system was a...more

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The Impact of Google v. Oracle: Google’s Big Win at the Supreme Court

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Earlier this week, the Supreme Court issued a decision in the long-standing copyright battle between technology titans, Google LLC and Oracle America, Inc., Google LLC v. Oracle America Inc. , ruling 6-2 in favor of Google....more

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The Supreme Court says that Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted software was fair use, reversing Federal Circuit

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On Monday, April 5, 2021, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google in a dispute over Google’s use of Oracle’s copyrighted software in its Android platform, because the use was protected under the “fair use” doctrine....more

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