Legal Opinion
General Universal Systems, Inc. v. Lee
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 20, 2004No. 01-21114, 02-20312, 02-21002, 02-21311, 03-20076 and 03-20092PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Per curiam
These consolidated cases arise from a copyright dispute between General Universal Systems, Inc. (“GUS”) and HAL, Inc. GUS sued HAL, two of its officers, and several of HAL’s customers claiming that HAL infringed its copyright in a freight packaging software system, misappropriated related trade secrets, violated the Lanham Act, and breached a contract with Joe Lopez. The district court dismissed GUS’s copyright, Lanham Act, and trade secret claims on summary judgment and, following a jury trial, granted HAL judgment as a matter of law on the contract claim. GUS subsequently filed a second…
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