Legal Opinion
Riviera Distributors, Inc. v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 20, 2008No. 06-2043, 06-3692PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Both sides to this litigation hold copyrights in software. Plaintiffs (which we call Riviera) contend that the “Stars and Stripes” video-poker game sold by defendants (which we call Midwest) infringes Riviera’s “Americana” source code. (There are several other games and sets of code, which we bypass to simplify the exposition.) After the suit had been pending for more than a year — and long after the time for a voluntary dismissal, without prejudice, under Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(a)(1) had passed — Riviera filed a motion to dismiss. It conceded that it lacked the evidence to…
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