Hugh Hansen was quoted in a Financial Regulation News article about Oracle’s copyright infringement case against Google.
[F]ordham University School of Law Professor Hugh Hansen, one of the 13 IP scholars, said during an interview this week that he thinks “Oracle has a decent chance of getting a reversal based on commercial competition.”
“That’s where I think there are possibilities. I don’t claim I know this case from the inside, but from the outside, that’s where I see a possible reversal,” Hansen told Financial Regulation News. “This case is certainly not a lost cause.”
Hansen, director of the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute and world renowned as an expert on international IP law, said that Judge Alsup “misrepresented the economic effect” that Google’s actions had on the market for Oracle, so the jury wasn’t properly informed when it agreed to the internet company’s fair use defense.