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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

The district court held a copyrightability hearing and followed a burden shifting procedure created by the 11th Circuit in Compulife Software Inc. In particular, the court first assumed that the work was copyrightable based upon the registration documents. SAS sued in E.D.Tex for copyright infringement.

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“What’s Mine Is Not Yours To Give Me”—Nor To Take Without Just Compensation: A New Jersey’s Reaction To Sovereign Immunity, Intellectual Property, & Takings

LexBlog IP

994 (2020) , a decision holding that the sovereign immunity of individual states prevented a copyright holder from recovering damages for infringement, I was a bit disheartened. The government is not using the patent, but the patented technology. That is just very different from ending a public franchise.