Legal Opinion
Gener-Villar v. ADCOM Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 4, 2005No. 04-2194, 04-2212PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Per curiam
These appeals involve a copyright infringement claim stemming from a dispute over commercial graphic images produced by appellant under a contract with appel-lee Adcom. The parties had litigated the ownership of the images themselves in the Puerto Rico Circuit Court of Appeals. That court held that, as a matter of Puerto Rico law, the actual images belonged to Adcom. Appellant then obtained a copyright to the images and brought this federal action. The district court found that, under the doctrine of res judicata, the federal action was precluded by the earlier Puerto Rico court judgment, and…
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