Legal Opinion
Business Trends Analysts, Inc. v. The Freedonia Group, Inc. And the Freedonia Group, Incorporated
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 5, 1989No. 1178, Docket 89-7156PublishedCited by 82 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
This copyright action involves the infringement of a study of the robotics industry. The principal issue on appeal concerns the appropriate measure of damages where a late-registering plaintiff fails to prove out-of-pocket losses to itself or conventional profits to the infringer.
Appellee Business Trends Analysts, Inc. (“BTA”), the successor to Predicasts, Inc. (“Predicasts”), claims that Predicasts’ study of the robotics industry was infringed by a publication of appellants The Free-donia Group, Inc., now dissolved, and The Freedonia Group, Incorporated (collectively…
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