Patently-O Reports on Amicus Brief Submitted by Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein on Behalf of the NYIPLA in Oracle
March 3, 2017
(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.
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