Professor Pamela Samuelson, joined by over 40 intellectual
property law professors, filed an amicus
curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court in
support of the
petition for writ of certiorari in Google v. Oracle. The brief argues that the
Federal Circuit erred in interpreting Section 102(b) of the 1976
Act, in
holding that the Java APIs at issue in the case are protectable
“structure,
sequence and organization,” and in misconstruing the merger
doctrine.
Read the brief here.