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Federal Circuit Narrows Scope for Copyrighting Software Function

Patently-O

In particular, the court first assumed that the work was copyrightable based upon the registration documents. Under the rules of procedure, if patent claims were raised in the case at some point, then the appeal heads to the Federal Circuit. Newman , 959 F.3d 3d 1288 (11th Cir. ” Slip Op.

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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

But the Texas courts found no taking, reasoning that nothing was taken from the photographer as he still had the right to use, and license others to use, his photographs. ” When a governmental entity infringes, it is using the inventor’s, or the author’s, creation without license or payment.