Legal Opinion
Softel, Inc. v. Dragon Medical & Scientific Communications, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 9, 1997No. 59, Docket 95-9151PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge:
Softel, Inc., a computer software company, brought this action against Dragon Medical and Scientific Communications, Inc. (“Dragon”), its parent Dragon Group, Ltd., and several of its employees (collectively “the defendants”) claiming that the defendants had infringed copyrights Softel held in several of its computer programs, and had misappropriated trade secrets contained within the computer code. Softel also alleged that the defendants were guilty of “reverse palming off” under § 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a), and that the defendant corporation’s…
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