Legal Opinion
Lucent Technologies, Inc. v. Board of Equalization
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 8, 2015No. B257808PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HOFFSTADT, J.
— A manufacturer sells sophisticated telecommunications equipment to nine different telephone companies, who in turn use that equipment to provide telephone and Internet services to their customers. In the transactions between the manufacturer and telephone companies, the companies paid for (1) the equipment, (2) written instructions on how to use the equipment, (3) a copy of the computer software that makes the equipment work, and (4) the right to copy that software onto the equipment’s hard drive and thereafter to use the software to operate the equipment. In Nortel…
2Cases cited48 opinions
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