Legal Opinion
Lotus Development Corporation v. Borland International, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 9, 1995No. 93-2214PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STAHL, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to decide whether a computer menu command hierarchy is copyrightable subject matter. In particular, we must decide whether, as the district court held, plaintiff-appellee Lotus Development Corporation’s copyright in Lotus 1-2-3, a computer spreadsheet program, was infringed by defendant-appellant Borland International, Inc., when Borland copied the Lotus 1-2-3 menu command hierarchy into its Quattro and Quattro Pro computer spreadsheet programs. See Lotus Dev. Corp. v. Borland Int’l, Inc., 788 F.Supp. 78 (D.Mass.1992) (“Borland I”); Lotus Dev.…
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