Legal Opinion
Globeranger Corp. v. Software AG United States of America, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 7, 2016No. 15-10121PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREGG COSTA, Circuit Judge:
Software maker GlobeRanger obtained a $15 million judgment in a trade secret misappropriation trial against competitor Software AG. Software AG challenges that result on a number of grounds, but its principal argument is that GlobeRanger finds itself in a jurisdictional Catch-22. It argues that GlobeRanger’s trade secret claim is preempted by federal copyright law, but if not, then the result is no federal claim to support jurisdiction. Because we find that the trade secret claim is not preempted but that a dismissed conversion claim was preempted and supports…
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