Rosetta Stone a permanent return. In December 2009, he proposed to drop his claim for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum lent the stone to Egypt for three months for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza in 2013. These requests were refused. As John Ray has observed, "the day may come when the stone has spent longer in the British Museum than it ever did in Rosetta." There is strong opposition among national museums to the repatriation of objects of international cultural significance such as the Rosetta Stone. In response to repeated Greek requests
Rosetta Stone Ltd. v. Google, Inc. found Rosetta Stone did not meet its burden for summary judgment. However, the question was whether Google had met "its" burden for summary judgment and given the evidence to support Rosetta Stone's claim, and that "Tiffany Inc. v. eBay, Inc." was decided after a trial and hence of limited application here, the Court overruled the district court's grant of summary judgment. The district court held that Rosetta Stone had failed to allege an implicit promise to pay, thus granting Google's motion to dismiss. The Court found this a misreading of the unjust enrichment standard, but upheld the motion to dismiss