Legal Opinion
Hutchinson Telephone Company v. Fronteer Directory Company of Minnesota, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 13, 1985No. 84-5129PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Hutchinson Telephone Company (Hutchinson) charges appellee Fronteer Directory Company of Minnesota (Fronteer) with infringement of Hutchinson’s copyright of its comprehensive alphabetical telephone directory for its service area (white pages). Hutchinson seeks an injunction and damages for the alleged infringement. The District Court determined as a matter of law that Hutchinson’s white pages directory was not copyrightable, and entered judgment for Fronteer on that basis.
The District Court divided the trial into two phases. The first phase was to determine the…
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