Legal Opinion
Engineering Dynamics, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Structural Software, Inc., and S. Rao Guntur, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 13, 1994No. 92-3444PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
Fifteen years ago Engineering Dynamics, Inc. (EDI) successfully defended itself against claims that its computer program infringed registered copyrights held by Syn-ereom Technology, Inc. on Synereom’s user manuals and input formats. That case held that neither the input formats brought to the court’s attention nor their sequence and organization were copyrightable. Synercom Technology, Inc. v. University Computing Co., 462 F.Supp. 1003 (N.D.Tex.1978). EDI has now switched sides and seeks a judgment of copyright infringement against Structural Software, Inc.…
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