Legal Opinion
SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 24, 2017No. 16-1808; No: 16-1857PublishedCited by 130 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:'"
SAS Institute (SAS) and World Programming Limited (WPL) are competitors in the market for statistical analysis software. SAS alleges that WPL breached a license agreement for SAS software and violated copyrights on that software. We agree with the district court that the contractual terms at issue are unambiguous and that SAS has shown that WPL violated those terms. We thus affirm the district court’s judgment finding WPL liable for breach of the license agreement. With respect to the district court’s ruling on the copyright claim, we vacate that portion of the…
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