Legal Opinion
Graham v. James
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 18, 1998No. Nos. 794, 795 and 796, Dockets 96-9224, 96-9272 and 97-7706PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JACOBS, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff Richard E. Graham (dba Night Owl Computer Service and then through a corporate entity, Night Owl’s Publisher, Inc.1) marketed CD-ROM disks containing compilations of computer programs; defendant Larry D. James created file-retrieval programs that allowed users to access particular programs on Graham’s products or (presumably) other CD-ROM disks. In this case, the parties assert conflicting rights to James’s work product.
Graham now appeals, and James cross-appeals, from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York (Elfvin,…
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