Legal Opinion
Medeco Security Locks, Inc. v. Thomas v. Swiderek and Continental Micro, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 26, 1981No. 80-2784PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Per curiam
Defendant Swiderek has appealed to this court from the district court’s grant of a preliminary injunction which prohibited Swiderek from printing, publishing, or selling a book of lock and key code numbers in competition with a book copyrighted by plaintiff Medeco. The books inform locksmiths how to produce various keys to fit Medeco’s “high-security” locks and for many years Medeco has made its code book available only to those locksmiths who have purchased Medeco’s key-making machines. Appellant contends that he obtained the code information contained in his book only by personally…
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