Legal Opinion
Rearden LLC v. Walt Disney Co.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided February 21, 2018No. Case No. 17–cv–04006–JST; Case No. 17–cv–04191–JST; Case No. 17–cv–04192–JSTPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JON S. TIGAR, United States District Judge
Now before the Court are the consolidated motions to dismiss by all the defendants in these three consolidated cases. The Court will grant the motions in part and deny them in part.
I. BACKGROUND
This action centers on the MOVA Contour Reality Capture Program ("MOVA Contour" or "MOVA"), which-as the name suggests-is a program for capturing the motion of the human face to create images used in motion pictures. Unlike previous motion capture technologies, the MOVA Contour Program "precisely captures and tracks the 3D shape and motion of a human face to…
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