Welcome to Skilled in the Art. I'm Law.com IP reporter Scott Graham. My first trip to the Federal Circuit was in December 2013, when the court heard arguments in Oracle v. Google, a copyright case you might have heard of. Four-and-a-half years later, we had yet another order in the case today, and I'm here to tell you what it means. I've also got a look at a new transparency tool from Unified Patents, and news of a $10.6 million jury verdict in a trial over 4G LTE patents. Many thanks to those of you who've been forwarding tips, thoughts and feedback. You can always send them to me here. And remember to follow me on Twitter.

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Google Doesn't Get an En Banc Nibble

It looks as if Google's original instinct in 2014 was correct. That was the year the Federal Circuit first ruled for Oracle in the parties' epic copyright brawl over Java application program interfaces. Google elected to bypass a petition for en banc review on the issue of copyrightability and proceeded directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it got some interest but cert ultimately was denied.

After a second Federal Circuit loss last March, Google asked the 12 active members of the Federal Circuit for en banc review of both the 2014 copyrightability ruling and this year's decision toppling a jury verdict that Google's Android operating system was a fair use of the APIs.