Partner Alec Rosenberg Talks with Law360 about Critical Copyright and Trademark Cases in 2015

Arent Fox Intellectual Property partner Alec P. Rosenberg was quoted by Law360 in an article previewing the most closely watched copyright and trademark cases in 2015.

The article highlighted Google v. Oracle as one of the critical cases for this year and reported that Google wants the Supreme Court to overturn a “May decision by the Federal Circuit that said Oracle could claim copyrights on so-called application programming interfaces, or APIs, for its Java programming language.”

Mr. Rosenberg expounded on whether Google’s copying of code was nonetheless protected fair use: “That question — how much does it matter that the party that’s alleged to be infringing the code is doing it in the name of consumers and the public’s interest in interoperability — is obviously really important to the API economy we’re living in and to the ‘Internet of things’ that’s on the horizon.”

To read the Law360 article, click here.

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