Legal Opinion
Warren Freedenfeld Associates, Inc. v. McTigue
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 20, 2008No. 07-1602, 07-1603PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Senior Circuit Judge.
These appeals rise, like the mythical Phoenix, out of the ashes of a failed business relationship between an architectural firm and its quondam client. They present interesting questions concerning the application of both the discovery rule and the work for hire doctrine in copyright infringement cases.
In the court below, the district judge dismissed the architectural firm’s copyright infringement claim on timeliness grounds and thereafter, at the summary judgment stage, ruled that the client’s counterclaims could not be proven. He also denied, anticipatorily, the…
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