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Nature of Suit Code: 830
Nature of Suit: Patent
Cause of Action: 35:271 Patent Infringement

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United States District Court

For the Northern District of California

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

ORACLE AMERICA, INC.,

Plaintiff,

 v.

 GOOGLE INC.,

Defendant. /

No. C 10-03561 WHA

ORDER RE ORACLE’S

OBJECTION RE SIMON PHIPPS

Simon Phipps will be allowed to testify to percipient facts and historical events known

to him personally while he was at Sun, including Sun’s practices concerning reimplementing

APIs and Sun’s attitude and interrelationship with OpenJDK, Apache Harmony, and GNU

Classpath. Apart from the above, he will not be allowed to testify as to the customs, practices,

or expectations of programmers or attitudes in the industry outside of Sun. Be aware that

custom and practice by programmers in calling a method within an API is not the same thing as

reimplementing an API.

To the foregoing extent, Oracle’s objection is SUSTAINED IN PART AND OVERRULED IN

PART.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: May 11, 2016. WILLIAM ALSUP

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

Case 3:10-cv-03561-WHA Document 1868 Filed 05/11/16 Page 1 of 1