Consumers Union of United States, Inc. v. Hobart Manufacturing Co.

THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.

Defendant Hobart moves for summary judgment.

We will presume a familiarity with Judge Dimock’s opinion (D.C., 189 F.Supp. 275, 278) denying plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

Judge Dimock almost held that the quoted parts in defendants’ Bulletin copied from plaintiff’s report were not protected by copyright. He did not have to on such a motion, but we have no hesitancy in so holding and in adopting his language: “In no instance did material which was copied into the Bulletin have any original literary form which would entitle it to copyright…