Moore v. Ford Motor Co.

(after stating the facts as above).

It has’not been seriously argued on this appeal that the plaintiff can recover for an infringement of his literary property, and we are in complete accord with the District Court’s decision that no copying of the plaintiff’s forms of expression was proved. Nor is there occasion to add anything to the lower court’s statement of the law or findings of faet on this branch of the ease.

Passing to the charge that the defendant appropriated the ideas embodied in plaintiff’s plan, we may assume, without the necessity of decision, that the originator of a novel…