Legal Opinion
MyWebGrocer, LLC v. Hometown Info, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 13, 2004No. Docket No. 03-7909PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WINTER, Circuit Judge.
MyWebGrocer, LLC (“MyWeb”) appeals from Judge Sessions’s denial' of a preliminary injunction that would have barred HomeTown Info, and its CEO Andrew Robinson (collectively “HomeTown”) from using grocery product descriptions for online shopping developed and copyrighted by MyWeb. The district court held that MyWeb was unlikely to prevail at trial on its claims because the product descriptions were not sufficiently creative to be copyrightable. We affirm but on somewhat different grounds.
BACKGROUND
MyWeb and HomeTown are competitors in the business of developing and…
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