Legal Opinion
The Gates Rubber Co. v. Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 19, 1993No. 92-1256PublishedCited by 262 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
The defendants appeal from the June 24, 1992, order of the district court in which it found that the defendants had infringed Gates’ copyright on an engineering computer program and wrongfully misappropriated trade secrets. We conclude that the district court erroneously extended copyright protection to certain unproteetable elements of the computer program. We also conclude that the district court failed properly to determine the proteetability of many of the elements of Gates’ program which it found to have been copied by the defendants. Accordingly, we remand the…
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