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This is ridiculous. Google won two jury trials and the CAFC has no business deciding copyright cases.
by sqdbps 9y ago
This is ridiculous. Google won two jury trials and the CAFC has no business deciding copyright cases.
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoI honestly don't know if a jury is the right place to decide a copyright case. Essentially, we take an extremely complicated chunk of law, take twelve random people and explain the basics of it... and then ask them to decide on a super complicated edge case of it. Does this work well? I would argue Google is likely to win a jury case over Oracle in most cases because Google, at least until very recently, has widely been viewed as a "good" company, and is one that is popular with the average user.
- onetimemanytime 9y ago>>Google won two jury trials and the CAFC has no business deciding copyright cases. I think that's their only business, by design. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Federal_Circuit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals...
- guelo 9y agoIt's a patent court, not copyrights.
- wtallis 9y agoThe CAFC is the appeals court for patents, which are not the same as copyrights. The local circuits handle copyright cases, except when there are also patent-related claims in the case. So if you are a plaintiff in a copyright lawsuit and you want your appeals to get the pro-IP biased treatment from the CAFC instead of going to the local circuit, make sure to find a way to include a patent claim in your suit.