Technicon Medical Information Systems Corp. v. Green Bay Packaging Inc., St. Vincent Hospital, and Leo N. Crowley

WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.

This cause is before the Court on an interlocutory appeal which presents the following certified question:

“Whether the acts of (1) affixing to certain documents a statutory notice of copyright including the prescribed year date of first publication, pursuant to the 1909 Copyright Act and the Universal Copyright Convention, and (2) publishing the documents, estop the party who affixed the notice and published the documents from subsequently asserting that such documents have not been generally published as represented by the copyright notice, but…