(February 20, 2017) Patently-O today mentions an Amicus Brief submitted by attorneys including Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein’s Charles R. Macedo and Annemarie Hassett on behalf of the New York Intellectual Property Law Association in Oracle America, Inc. v. Google Inc., Nos. 2017-1118, -1202 (Fed. Cir.). In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is being asked to set parameters for the scope of the fair use defense in copyright law, including what constitutes a “transformative use” of computer programming code. The article is available at http://patentlyo.com/patent/2017/02/google-oracle-copyrighted.html and the NYIPLA’s Amicus Brief is available at https://www.nyipla.org/nyipla/AmicusBriefsNews.asp.