Oracle Corporation et al v. SAP AG et al
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Amended Joint Jury Instructions and Proposed Special Verdict Form by Oracle International Corporation, SAP AG, SAP America Inc, Tomorrownow Inc. (Howard, Geoffrey) (Filed on 6/7/2012) Modified on 6/8/2012 (vlk, COURT STAFF).
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BINGHAM McCUTCHEN LLP
DONN P. PICKETT (SBN 72257)
GEOFFREY M. HOWARD (SBN 157468)
BREE HANN (SBN 215695)
Three Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111-4067
Telephone: (415) 393-2000
Facsimile: (415) 393-2286
donn.pickett@bingham.com
geoff.howard@bingham.com
bree.hann@bingham.com
JONES DAY
ROBERT A. MITTELSTAEDT (SBN 060359)
JASON McDONELL (SBN 115084)
ELAINE WALLACE (SBN 197882)
555 California Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Telephone:
(415) 626-3939
Facsimile:
(415) 875-5700
ramittelstaedt@jonesday.com
jmcdonell@jonesday.com
ewallace@jonesday.com
BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP
DAVID BOIES (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
333 Main Street
Armonk, NY 10504
Telephone: (914) 749-8200
Facsimile: (914) 749-8300
dboies@bsfllp.com
STEVEN C. HOLTZMAN (SBN 144177)
FRED NORTON (SBN 224725)
1999 Harrison St., Suite 900
Oakland, CA 94612
Telephone: (510) 874-1000
Facsimile: (510) 874-1460
sholtzman@bsfllp.com
fnorton@bsfllp.com
DORIAN DALEY (SBN 129049)
JENNIFER GLOSS (SBN 154227)
500 Oracle Parkway, M/S 5op7
Redwood City, CA 94070
Telephone: (650) 506-4846
Facsimile: (650) 506-7114
dorian.daley@oracle.com
jennifer.gloss@oracle.com
Attorneys for Plaintiffs
Oracle USA, Inc., et al.
JONES DAY
THARAN GREGORY LANIER (SBN 138784)
JANE L. FROYD (SBN 220776)
1755 Embarcadero Road
Palo Alto, CA 94303
Telephone:
(650) 739-3939
Facsimile:
(650) 739-3900
tglanier@jonesday.com
jfroyd@jonesday.com
JONES DAY
SCOTT W. COWAN (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
JOSHUA L. FUCHS (Admitted Pro Hac Vice)
717 Texas, Suite 3300
Houston, TX 77002
Telephone:
(832) 239-3939
Facsimile:
(832) 239-3600
swcowan@jonesday.com
jlfuchs@jonesday.com
Attorneys for Defendants
SAP AG, SAP America, Inc., and
TomorrowNow, Inc.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
OAKLAND DIVISION
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ORACLE USA, INC., et al.,
Plaintiffs,
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Case No. 07-CV-01658 PJH (EDL)
AMENDED JOINT JURY
INSTRUCTIONS AND PROPOSED
SPECIAL VERDICT FORM
SAP AG, et al.,
Defendants.
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Case No. 07-CV-01658 PJH (EDL)
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JOINT JURY INSTRUCTIONS
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Pursuant to the Court’s Pretrial Order Re Retrial (ECF No. 1110), the Court’s Final
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Pretrial Order (ECF No. 1171), and the Court’s guidance at the May 24, 2012 Pretrial
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Conference, Plaintiff Oracle International (“Oracle”) and Defendants SAP AG, SAP America,
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Inc., and TomorrowNow, Inc. (collectively, “Defendants,” and with Oracle, the “Parties”) hereby
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submit the following amended jury materials: preliminary jury instructions, an evidentiary trial
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instruction, and final jury instructions. The Parties preserve their respective objections as raised
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in the Parties’ Joint Jury Instructions (ECF No. 1131) and at the May 24, 2012 Pretrial
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Conference, but submit these amended materials in view of the Court’s rulings. These materials
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are attached as Appendix A, B, and C, respectively. The Parties also submit competing special
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verdict forms, attached as Appendices D and E. The remaining disputes between the parties
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concern the evidentiary trial instruction, jury instructions on damages, and the special verdict
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form. Where applicable, slip sheets indicate where one party offers an instruction to which the
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other party objects but where the objecting party does not submit a competing instruction.
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Alternatively, a slip sheet is provided where Defendants object to an instruction in its entirety,
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but offer a conditional competing instruction in the event that the Court overrules Defendants’
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objection to the instruction as a whole.
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DATED: June 7, 2012
Bingham McCutchen LLP
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By:
/s/ Geoffrey M. Howard
Geoffrey Howard
Attorneys for Plaintiff
Oracle International Corporation
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In accordance with General Order No. 45, Rule X, the above signatory attests that
concurrence in the filing of this document has been obtained from the signatory below.
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DATED: June 7, 2012
JONES DAY
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/s/ Tharan Gregory Lanier
Tharan Gregory Lanier
Attorneys for Defendants
SAP AG, SAP America, Inc.,
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Preliminary Instruction No. 1
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DUTY OF JURY
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You must not infer from the instructions or from anything that I might say during the
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course of the trial as indicating that I have an opinion regarding the evidence or what your
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verdict should be. It is your duty to find the facts from all of the evidence in the case, and to
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those facts, you will apply the law as I give it to you. You must follow the law as I give it to you,
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whether you agree with it or not. And you must not be influenced by personal likes, or dislikes,
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opinions, prejudices, or sympathy. That means that you must decide the case solely on the
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evidence before you. You will recall that yesterday, you took an oath to do exactly that. And in
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following my instructions, you must follow all of them and not single out some and ignore
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others. They are all equally important.
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PARTIES AND CLAIMS
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To help you follow the evidence, I will give you a brief summary of who the parties are
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As I explained yesterday, there is one plaintiff, Oracle International Corporation, which
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There are three defendants in this case. SAP AG, which will be referred to by that name;
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SAP America, Incorporated, which I will refer to as “SAP America”; and TomorrowNow,
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Incorporated, which I will refer to as simply “TomorrowNow.” Collectively, these defendants
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will be referred to as either Defendants or “SAP.” SAP America is a wholly owned subsidiary of
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SAP AG. And TomorrowNow is a wholly owned subsidiary of SAP America.
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Oracle and certain of its related entities originally asserted ten claims against the
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defendants. As you will see from the stipulations that are included in your jury notebooks,
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TomorrowNow has agreed to liability for all ten claims.
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Further, as to the first claim for copyright infringement, as you will see from the
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stipulations included in your juror notebook, SAP AG and SAP America have agreed to liability
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for vicarious and contributory copyright infringement.
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Here, the only issue remaining for you to decide is damages. Specifically, you must
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decide the amount of damages that should be awarded to Oracle for Defendants’ stipulated
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infringement, as I will explain to you later in the case.
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BURDEN OF PROOF—PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE
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When a party has the burden of proof on any claim by a preponderance of the evidence, it
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means that you must be persuaded by the evidence that the claim is more probably true than not
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true. And you should base your decision on all of the evidence regardless of which party
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PARTY HAVING POWER TO PRODUCE BETTER EVIDENCE
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You may consider the ability of each party to provide evidence. If a party provided
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weaker evidence when it could have provided stronger evidence, you may distrust the weaker
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WHAT IS EVIDENCE
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WHAT IS NOT EVIDENCE
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In reaching your verdict, you may consider only the testimony and exhibits received into
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evidence. There are other things, however, that are not evidence, and you may not consider them
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in deciding what the facts are. I will list them for you.
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(1) Arguments and statements by lawyers are not evidence. The lawyers are not
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witnesses. What they will say in their closing arguments, opening statements, and at
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other times is intended to help you interpret the evidence, but it is not evidence. If the
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facts as you remember them differ from the way the lawyers have stated them, your
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memory of those facts controls.
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(2) Questions and objections by lawyers are not evidence. Attorneys have a duty
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to their respective clients to object when they believe a question is improper under the
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rules of evidence. You should not be influenced by the objection or by the court’s
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(3) Testimony that has been excluded or stricken, or that you have been instructed
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to disregard, is not evidence and must not be considered. In addition sometimes
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testimony and exhibits are received only for a limited purpose; when I give a limiting
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EVIDENCE FOR LIMITED PURPOSE
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DIRECT AND CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE
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Evidence may be direct or circumstantial. Direct evidence is direct proof of a fact, such
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evidence is proof of one or more facts from which you could find another fact. You should
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consider both kinds of evidence. The law makes no distinction between the weight to be given to
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either direct or circumstantial evidence. It is for you to decide how much weight to give to any
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RULING ON OBJECTIONS
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There are rules of evidence that control what can be received into evidence. When a
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objection, the question may be answered or the exhibit received. If I sustain the objection, the
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question cannot be answered, and the exhibit cannot be received. Whenever I sustain an
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objection to a question, you must ignore the question and must not guess what the answer might
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CREDIBILITY OF WITNESSES
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which testimony not to believe. You may believe everything a witness says, or part of it, or none
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WITNESS WILLFULLY FALSE
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INFERENCES DEFINED
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statements of the witnesses. In other words, you are not limited to what you see and hear as the
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witnesses testify. You may draw from the facts that you find have been proved such reasonable
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inferences as seem justified in light of your experience.
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NO TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE TO JURY/TAKING NOTES
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During deliberations, you will have to make your decision based on what you recall of
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the case. You will not have a transcript of the trial. I urge you to pay close attention to the
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arguments, please let me know so we can correct the problem. Just raise your hand and I’ll ask
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notes, please keep them to yourself until you and your fellow jurors go to the jury room to decide
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the case. Do not let note-taking distract you. When you leave in the evening, your notes should
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be left in the jury room. No one will read your notes. They will be destroyed at the conclusion
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USE OF INTERPRETERS—OTHER LANGUAGES; COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN
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translated during this case, it is important that all jurors consider the same evidence. Therefore,
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STIPULATIONS OF FACT
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The parties have agreed to certain facts, and their written stipulations of fact will be
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placed in evidence as Exhibits 1 through 3. These exhibits can be found in your juror notebook
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and may be referred to by the parties throughout this trial. You should treat facts within the
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stipulations as having been proved.
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STIPULATIONS OF LIABILITY
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Plaintiff for all of the claims that Plaintiff have asserted, and that SAP AG and SAP America are
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contributorily and vicariously liable for TomorrowNow’s copyright infringement. You should
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therefore treat these claims as having been proved. Those stipulations of liability will be placed
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in evidence as Exhibits 4 and 5. These exhibits can be found in your juror notebook and may be
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referred to by the parties throughout this trial.
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THE PARTIES’ BURDENS REGARDING DAMAGES
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As a result of Defendants’ infringement, Oracle is entitled to recover both its actual
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damages, and all profits Defendants earned that are attributable to the infringement and not taken
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infringement. Oracle’s lost profits are therefore equal to the revenue Oracle would have made
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without the infringement less any additional expenses it would have incurred in making the sales.
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It is Oracle’s burden to prove its lost profits by a preponderance of the evidence. Determining
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lost profits may involve some uncertainty, and Oracle is not required to establish them with
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Defendants’ profits are all the gross revenues that Defendants received in connection with
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the infringement they have admitted, less expenses incurred in producing the Defendants’ gross
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revenue. It is Oracle’s burden to prove Defendants’ gross revenue by a preponderance of the
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evidence. Once Oracle meets this burden, it is Defendants’ burden to prove their expenses by a
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preponderance of the evidence. Insofar as Defendants seek to deduct indirect costs like overhead
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expenses, they must show these expenses assisted in the production, distribution or sale of
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infringing products. If you find that Defendants' infringement was willful, then you should give
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extra scrutiny to the categories of overhead expenses claimed by the infringer to ensure that each
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category is directly and validly connected to the production, distribution or sale of infringing
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products. If Defendants do not meet their burden of proving expenses, the gross revenue figure
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stands as the Defendants’ profits. Any doubt as to the computation of Defendants’ costs or
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profits is to be resolved in favor of Oracle.
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2218:01-2219:04) (modified); Ninth Circuit Manual of Model Jury Instructions, Instructions
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1331-33 (9th Cir. 1984); Frank Music Corp. v. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., 772 F.2d 505, 514AMENDED JOINT JURY INSTRUCTIONS AND PROPOSED SPECIAL VERDICT FORM
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burdens of the parties after the presentation of evidence. Defendants
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conditionally submit the following competing instruction in the event that the
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THE PARTIES’ BURDENS REGARDING DAMAGES
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Oracle is entitled to recover the actual damages it suffered as a result of the infringement.
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For the purposes of this case, actual damages means the profits Oracle lost because of the
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infringement to which Defendants have stipulated. Lost profits are the revenue Oracle would
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have made in the absence of the infringement, less any additional expenses it would have
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Oracle must prove damages by a preponderance of the evidence. While there is no
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speculation, guesswork, or conjecture. Determining actual damages may involve some
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uncertainty, and Oracle is not required to establish its actual damages with precision.
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In addition to calculating Oracle’s actual damages, you must also determine the amount
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of profits made by any defendant that are attributable to the stipulated infringement. You may
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not include in an award of Defendants’ profits any amount that you already took into account in
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determining lost profits.
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You may make an award of Defendants’ profits only if you find that Oracle showed a
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causal relationship between the infringement and the profits generated indirectly from the
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infringement. Defendants’ gross revenue is all of Defendants’ receipts associated with the
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stipulated infringement. Oracle has the burden of proving Defendants’ gross revenue by a
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preponderance of the evidence.
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Defendants’ profits are determined by subtracting operating costs, overhead costs, and
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production costs incurred in producing Defendants’ gross revenue. Defendants have the burden
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of proving their expenses by a preponderance of the evidence.
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Unless you find that a portion of the profit from the use of the copyrighted works is
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attributable to factors other than use of the copyrighted works, all of the profit is to be attributed
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to the infringement. Defendants have the burden of proving the portion of the profit, if any,
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questions and answers are recorded. When a person is unavailable to testify at trial, the
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deposition of that person may be used at the trial. In this trial, deposition testimony will be
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of the selected excerpts for a particular witness will be played together. Therefore, although the
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excerpts may have been selected by either side. As a result, the video clips, when played, may
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seem slightly out of order to you. However, please listen to the entire video clip and consider all
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interrogatories submitted by the other side. These answers were given in writing and under oath,
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before the actual trial, in response to questions that were submitted in writing under established
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court procedures. You should consider the answers, insofar as possible, in the same way as if
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USE OF REQUESTS FOR ADMISSION
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matters are true. If the other party admits those matters, you must accept them as true. No
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further evidence is required to prove them. You must also accept as true any stipulated facts I
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the reasons for those opinions. Opinion testimony should be judged just like any other
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testimony. You may accept it or reject it, and give it as much weight as you think it deserves,
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considering the witness’s education and experience, the reasons given for the opinion, and all the
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EVIDENCE USED WITH EXPERT WITNESS
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presented that cannot be considered as substantive evidence of truth. You may consider this
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evidence only to evaluate the basis of the expert’s opinion. I will advise you as to which
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admitted to illustrate and explain the expert’s opinion, however, it is necessary for the court to
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instruct the jury that the [otherwise inadmissible] evidence is to be considered solely as a basis
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for the expert opinion and not as substantive evidence.”); Garcia v. Los Banos Unified School
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Dist., No. 1:04-CV-6059-SMS, 2007 WL 715526, at *3 (E.D. Cal. Mar. 8, 2007) (“Further, the
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opinion, then a limiting instruction should be given to the jury to inform it that the hearsay
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evidence is to be considered solely as a basis for the expert opinion and not as substantive
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evidence.”); United States v. A & S Council Oil Co., 947 F.2d 1128, 1135 (4th Cir. 1991)
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Certain charts and summaries not received in evidence may be shown to you in order to
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help explain the contents of books, records, documents, or other evidence in the case. They are
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not themselves evidence or proof of any facts. If they do not correctly reflect the facts or figures
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shown by the evidence in the case, you should disregard the charts and summaries and determine
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brought out in the trial. Charts and summaries are only as good as the underlying evidence that
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supports them. You should, therefore, give them only such weight as you think the underlying
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Defendants did not produce in a timely fashion certain relevant instant messages, which
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we’ll refer to as IMs, involving TomorrowNow employees. As a result, Oracle was unable to
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fully investigate and use the late-produced IMs during preparations for this trial. Therefore, if
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any of these IMs are introduced into evidence during trial, and if there is any dispute about their
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meaning, you should interpret them consistent with what you find to be any reasonable
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throughout the trial, and do not decide what the verdict should be until you and your fellow
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jurors have completed your deliberations at the end of the case. Second, because you must
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decide this case based only on the evidence received in the case and on my instructions as to the
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law that applies, you must not be exposed to any other information about the case or to the issues
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it involves during the course of your jury duty. Thus, until the end of the case or unless I tell you
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otherwise: Do not communicate with anyone in any way and do not let anyone else
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communicate with you in any way about the merits of the case or anything to do with it. This
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includes discussing the case in person, in writing, by phone or electronic means, via e-mail, text
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messaging, or any Internet chat room, blog, Web site or other feature. This applies to
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communicating with your fellow jurors until I give you the case for deliberation, and it applies to
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communicating with everyone else including your family members, your employer, and the
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people involved in the trial, although you may notify your family and your employer that you
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have been seated as a juror in the case. But, if you are asked or approached in any way about
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your jury service or anything about this case, you must respond that you have been ordered not to
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discuss the matter and to report the contact to the court.
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to return a verdict: do not read, watch, or listen to any news or media accounts or commentary
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about the case or anything to do with it; do not do any research, such as consulting dictionaries,
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searching the Internet or using other reference materials; and do not make any investigation or in
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any other way try to learn about the case on your own.
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evidence that each party has had an opportunity to address. A juror who violates these
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restrictions jeopardizes the fairness of these proceedings , and a mistrial could result that would
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BENCH CONFERENCES AND RECESSES
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attorneys out of the hearing of the jury, either by having a conference at the bench, which we call
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a sidebar, or when the jury is not present, or by calling a recess. We will try to keep the number
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and length of these conferences to a minimum. Please understand that while you are waiting, we
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are working. The purpose of these conferences is not to keep information from you, but to
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decide how certain evidence is to be treated under the rules of evidence and to avoid confusion
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granting or denying a request for a conference as any indication of my opinion of the case or of
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OUTLINE OF TRIAL
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Trials proceed in the following way: First, each side may make an opening statement. An
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opening statement is not evidence. It is simply an outline to help you understand what that party
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expects the evidence will show. A party is not required to make an opening statement.
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examine. Then the defendant may present evidence, and counsel for the plaintiff may cross-
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declarations from customers of Cowlitz County, Washington. These declarations are relied upon
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by Plaintiff’s damages expert in forming his opinions. The evidence contained is admissible
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only for the purpose of explaining the basis of Mr. Meyer’s opinion. It is not offered for truth of
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the information contained in the declaration and should not be considered by you for that
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apply the law as I give it to you. You must follow the law as I give it to you whether you agree
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with it or not. And you must not be influenced by any personal likes or dislikes, opinions,
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prejudices, or sympathy. That means that you must decide the case solely on the evidence before
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witnesses. What they have said in their opening statements, and their closing arguments,
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and at other times is intended to help you interpret the evidence, but it is not evidence. If
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the facts as you remember them differ from the way the lawyers have stated them, your
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disregard, is not evidence and must not be considered. In addition, sometimes testimony
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and exhibits are received only for a limited purpose; when I have given a limiting
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as testimony by a witness about what that witness personally saw or heard or did. Circumstantial
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evidence is proof of one or more facts from which you could find another fact. You should
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which testimony not to believe. You may believe everything a witness says, or part of it, or none
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REDACTED MATERIALS
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From time to time, the Parties have offered into evidence documents that have been
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partially “redacted,” which means that certain contents of the document have been blacked or
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whited out and stamped “redacted.” Redactions are necessary for a wide variety of reasons,
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including that the redacted information is unrelated to the evidence in the case, that the Court has
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determined that the information is not admissible, or to protect as private the personal
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information of individuals or other companies not parties to this lawsuit. These are just
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examples. You may give the un-redacted information in any document whatever weight you
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DUTY TO DETERMINE DAMAGES
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against TomorrowNow, SAP AG, and SAP America. As reflected in the stipulations between
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the Parties contained in your juror notebook, the Parties agree that TomorrowNow is liable for
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the copyright infringement asserted by Oracle, and that SAP AG and SAP America are also
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vicariously and contributorily liable for that copyright infringement.
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based on the instructions I will give you regarding the law on copyright infringement, and the
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in the work. In general, copyright law protects against the production, adaptation, distribution,
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or public display of the owner’s copyrighted work without the owner’s permission. An owner
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may enforce these rights to exclude others in an action for copyright infringement. Even though
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one may acquire a copy of the copyrighted work, the copyright owner retains certain rights and
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control of that copy, including uses that may result in additional copies or alterations of the
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are now Orders of the Court. The stipulations have been referred to by the Parties throughout
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this trial and entered into evidence labeled JTX 0001 through 0005. They also can be found in
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your jury notebook and are referenced in the Table of Contents as Numbers 2 through 6. In these
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stipulations, Defendants have admitted that TomorrowNow is directly liable to Oracle for all of
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also contains counts of the “minimum numbers” of infringing copies and downloads made by
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contributorily and vicariously liable for all of TomorrowNow’s copyright infringement. You
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Oracle is entitled to recover the actual damages it suffered as a result of the infringement
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infringement, as reflected in the five stipulations in your jury notebook. Oracle must prove its
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determining actual damages, your award must be based on evidence, not on speculation,
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Oracle is not required to establish its actual damages with precision.
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Prods., Inc. v. Timex Corp., 384 F.3d 700, 709 (9th Cir. 2004); Order Denying Defendants'
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(9th Cir. 1982) ("Although damages need not be proved to a mathematical certainty, 'sufficient
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Prods., Inc. v. Timex Corp., 384 F.3d 700, 709 (9th Cir. 2004); Order Denying Defendants’
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infringement. Defendants’ gross revenue is all of Defendants’ receipts associated with the
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stipulated infringement. Oracle has the burden of proving Defendants’ gross revenue by a
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production costs incurred in producing Defendants’ gross revenue. Defendants have the burden
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attributable to factors other than use of the copyrighted works, all of the profit is to be attributed
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to the infringement. Defendants have the burden of proving the portion of the profit, if any,
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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ORACLE USA, INC., ORACLE
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SYSTEMS, INC.
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Case No. 07-CV-1658 PJH (EDL)
SPECIAL VERDICT FORM
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We, the jury in the above-entitled action, find the following special verdict on the questions
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Actual Damages for Copyright Infringement
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What is the dollar amount that Oracle is entitled to from Defendants as actual damages in
the form of lost profits under Oracle’s copyright infringement claim?
$_______________________________________________________.
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Infringers’ Profits for Copyright Infringement
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What is the dollar amount that Oracle is entitled to from Defendants as infringers’ profits
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GROSS REVENUE: $____________________________________________________.
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(Minus) Expenses: $________________________________________________.
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Signed: ________________________________________ Dated: _______________________
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Case No. 07-CV-1658 PJH (EDL)
SPECIAL VERDICT FORM
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What is the dollar amount that Oracle is entitled to from Defendants as actual damages in
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$_______________________________________________________.
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Infringers’ Profits for Copyright Infringement
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What is the dollar amount that Oracle is entitled to from Defendants as infringers’ profits
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$____________________________________________________________.
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