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Usually you want jurors who bring no preconceived ideas with them to the trial. Lawyers sometimes call the people they pick during voire dire as “the 12 least able to read people in the room.” This helps explain why defendants usually hate going to trial and why 98% of all civil cases settle.

That’s for the jury’s role of finding fact. If the judge made some error of law they could appeal on that basis, but it would then go back down to a new jury. People misunderstand appeals all the time. It isn’t like a new trial in front of a higher court. You need to make an actual legal argument as to why the lower court ruled incorrectly. They’ll probably attempt it but that doesn’t mean it will go anywhere.

Could be a retrial on the first several copyright claims I suppose, but seems likely a jury would find those to be fair use, and I think Oracle would be pretty loathe to let a court set that precedent. The last claim will have some damages associated with it, but they’ll be very minimal.

Well, the jury’s finding of fact won’t (can’t be) be appealed. If there was some technical legal issue (incorrect jury instruction, etc) or some error of law, then yeah this could be overturned and sent back to a new jury, but I haven’t seen any reason to think there has been grounds for anything like that.