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This is ridiculous. Google won two jury trials and the CAFC has no business deciding copyright cases.

I 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.

>>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...

It's a patent court, not copyrights.

The 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.

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