Amicus Briefs
Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade, Inc. (9th Cir. 1992)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Amdahl, AT&T, and Fujitsu
- Counsel: John Haven Chapman from Chapman, Moran, Hubbard Glazer & Zimmerman (Stamford, CT); Thomas N. White, Jr. (Santa Clara, CA)
Pulse Communications, Inc. v. DSC Communications Corp. (S.Ct. 1999)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: AT&T, Fujitsu, Oracle, and Sun
- Counsel: Edward J. Black from CCIA; Jonathan Band from Morrison & Foerster LLP as Counsel of Record
Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc. (6th Cir. 2003)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Fujitsu, Oracle, Sun, and Yahoo
- Counsel: Edward J. Black and Jason M. Mahler from CCIA
The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2004)
- Counsel: Jonathan Band and Matthew Schruers from Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Fujitsu, Oracle, Sun, and Yahoo
Joint CCIA-OSAIA (Open Source & Industry Alliance)
Davidson & Associates, Inc., et al. v. Internet Gateway, et al. (8th Cir. 2005)
- Counsel: Jonathan Band and Matthew Schruers from Morrison & Foerster LLC
- Representative CCIA and OSAIA members at time included: Fujitsu, Oracle, Sun, Red Hat, and Yahoo
Joint CCIA-ACIS (American Committee for Interoperable Systems)
Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International, Inc. (S.Ct. 1995)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Amdahl, AT&T, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Storagetek, and Sun
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. v. Connectix Corp. (9th Cir. 1999)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Amdahl, AT&T, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Netscape, Nokia, Oracle, Sun, and Yahoo
DVD Copy Control Assoc. v. Brunner (Cal. Ct. App. 2000)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Amdahl, AT&T, Fujitsu, Intuit, Oracle, Sun, and Yahoo
Joint CCIA-Public Interest Groups & Professors
Bowers v. Baystate (Fed. Cir. 2002)
- Representative CCIA members at time included: Fujitsu, Oracle, Sun, and Yahoo
ACIS (American Committee for Interoperable Systems)
Computer Assoc. Int., Inc. v. Altai, Inc. (2d Cir. 1991)
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Sun, and Zenith
Sega v. Accolade (N.D. Cal. 1992)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS; Norton Cutler, Assistant Chief Counsel, Litigation, NCR Corporation; Gregory Handschuh, Vice President, Legal Affairs, Amdahl Corporation; John S. Solakian, Corporate Patent Counsel, Bull HN Information Systems, Inc.; W. Russell Wayman, Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, Storage Technology Corporation
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Seagate, Sun, and Zenith
Sega v. Accolade (9th Cir. 1992)
- Counsel: Edward J. Black from CCIA; Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS; Paul Goldstein, Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Engineering Dynamics v. Structural Systems (5th Cir. 1992)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Oracle, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Gates v. Bando (10th Cir. 1992)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Oracle, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Lotus Development Corp v. Borland International (1st Cir. 1993)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Unix Systems v. Berkeley Software (3rd Cir. 1993)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Bateman, et al., v. Mnemonics, Inc. et al. (11th Cir. 1994)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Apple v. Microsoft (9th Cir. 1994)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
ProCD v. Zeidenberg (7th Cir. 1996)
- Counsel: Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS
- Representative ACIS members at time included: Amdahl, Fujitsu, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
ACIS Letters
Letter to Clinton Administration (1992)
- From Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS, requesting meeting with Clinton transition team regarding IP policy (Sun letterhead).
- Letter attachments include ACIS fact sheet, ACIS Statement of Principles (stating that APIs are uncopyrightable), and ACIS membership list.
- Representative ACIS members identified include: AMD, Amdahl, Fujitsu, Oracle, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
Letter to Rep. Hughes, House IP Subcmte. Chairman (1992)
- From Peter Choy, Deputy General Counsel of Sun Microsystems and Chairman of ACIS, to Congressman Hughes regarding pending legislation.
- Letter attachment identifies ACIS membership, including such representative members as: AMD, Amdahl, Fujitsu, Oracle, Seagate, Sun, Western Digital, and Zenith
ECIS (European Committee for Interoperable Systems) Report
- “Protecting Computer Software While Encouraging Interoperability and Innovation” (1990)
- Table of Contents: An Introduction to the Proposed Directive on the Legal Protection of Computer Programs; Questions and Answers; Current Press; Appendices including, e.g., Statement of Principles; ECIS Membership List; ‘The Distinction Between Interface Specifications and Implementations’
- Representative ECIS members identified include: Amdahl, Amstrad, Fujitsu Espana, Nokia, Oracle Europe, Storagetek, and Sun