Legal Opinion
Lloyd Lieb, Trading as Specialized Cassettes v. Topstone Industries, Inc., and D. Robbins & Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 14, 1986No. 85-5401PublishedCited by 391 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
WEIS, Circuit Judge.
The district court granted summary judgment for defendants in this copyright infringement suit but denied statutory counsel fees without discussion. Because we are unable to determine whether the district court properly exercised its discretion, we will remand for an articulation of reasons. In an effort to assist the district courts, we review some of the factors pertinent to the award of fees under the Copyright Act as well as to the matter of sanctions under Fed.R.Civ.P. 11, which has also been invoked here.
Plaintiff had conceived the idea of an…
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