Legal Opinion
Edgenet, Inc. v. Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 5, 2011No. 10-1335PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Home Depot has more than 2,000 retail stores, each of which stocks thousands of items. Customers can buy more than 250,000 items on Home Depot’s web site, or by special order at a retail outlet. It would be impossible to manage such a complex inventory without a computer database — and setting. up a database requires a classification of its contents into categories, such as hand tools and appliances. Each classification comprises sub-classifications (e.g., both hammers and screwdrivers are hand tools, and there are many types of each). The database also needs…
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