After the jury returned a partial verdict in the copyright phase of the Google-Oracle trial — unable to decide whether Google’s recreation of the Java platform constituted “fair use” of Oracle’s copyright — the trial has now entered the patent phase, where the same jury will seek to decide whether Google infringed on Oracle’s patents. No doubt, the arguments will be just as heated — and just as complicated. But with his opening salvo, Oracle counsel Mike Jacobs told the [...]