Google Argues That the Merger Doctrine Bars Copyright Protection of Oracle's Source Code

Oracle vs. Google Court Filing, retrieved on May 9, 2014, is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This is part 7 of 16. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here 1. Declaring Source Code First, Oracle argues that the district court erred in concluding that each line of declaring source code is completely unprotected under the merger and short phrases doctrines.

While Google is correct that the jury instructions and verdict form focused on the structure and organization of the packages, we agree with Oracle that there was no need for the jury to address copying of the declaring code because Google conceded that it copied it verbatim. Indeed, the district court specifically instructed the jury that “Google agrees that it uses the same names and declarations” in Android. Final Charge to the Jury at 10.

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