N
O
.
14-410
In the
Supreme Court of the United States
G
OOGLE
I
NC
., P
ETITIONER
, v. O
RACLE
A
MERICA
,
I
NC
., R
ESPONDENT
.
________________ On Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ________________
REPLY BRIEF OF PETITIONER
________________
B
RUCE
W.
B
ABER
KING & SPALDING LLP 1180 Peachtree Street, NE Atlanta, GA 30309
R
OBERT
A.
V
AN
N
EST
S
TEVEN
A.
H
IRSCH
C
HRISTA
M.
A
NDERSON
M
ICHAEL
S.
K
WUN
D
AN
J
ACKSON
KEKER & VAN NEST LLP 633 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 D
ARYL
L.
J
OSEFFER
Counsel of Record
A
SHLEY
C.
P
ARRISH
A
DAM
M.
C
ONRAD
E
THAN
P.
D
AVIS
KING & SPALDING LLP 1700 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Washington, DC 20006 (202) 737-0500 djoseffer@kslaw.com R
ENNY
H
WANG
GOOGLE INC. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
Counsel for Petitioner
December 23, 2014
i
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES ........................................ ii
REPLY BRIEF ............................................................. 1
I.
The Circuit Cou
rts’
Division ................................ 1
II.
The Federal
Circuit’s
Error .................................. 5
III.
The
Issue’s
Importance ...................................... 10
CONCLUSION .......................................................... 13
ii
TABLE OF AUTHORITIES Cases
Baker v. Selden
, 101 (11 Otto) U.S. 99 (1880) ............................. 3, 6
Computer Assocs.
Int’l,
Inc. v. Altai, Inc.
, 982 F.2d 693 (2d Cir. 1992) .................................. 5
Daimler AG v. Bauman
, 134 S. Ct. 746 (2014) .......................................... 10
Feist
Publ’ns,
Inc. v. Rural Tel. Serv. Co.
, 499 U.S. 340 (1991) .................................... 6, 8, 12
Lexmark
Int’l,
Inc. v. Static Control Components
,
Inc.
, 387 F.3d 522 (6th Cir. 2004) ........................ 2, 4, 5
Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland
Int’l,
Inc.
, 49 F.3d 807 (1st Cir. 1995) ......................... passim
Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland
Int’l,
Inc.
, 516 U.S. 233 (1996) (per curiam) ......................... 1
Situation Mgmt. Sys., Inc. v. ASP. Consulting LLC
, 560 F.3d 53 (1st Cir. 2009) ................................... 3
Statutes
17 U.S.C. § 102 .................................................... 1, 2, 8
Other Authorities
FreeBSD Project,
The FreeBSD Copyright
(2014) .......................... 11 H.R.
R
EP
.
N
O
. 94-1476 (1976) ...................................... 6