Legal Opinion
Synercom Technology, Inc. v. University Computing Co.
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided August 24, 1978No. Civ. A. CA-3-77-1455-GPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.
This case presents claims of copyright infringement of instruction manuals and input formats used with a computer program designed to solve engineering problems incident to the analysis of structures. 1
The analysis of building structures under anticipated or actual conditions of use including the necessary strength of materials and design has for many years required numerous calculations and hundreds of hours of engineering time in the case of larger structures. Structural analysis is a sufficiently matured science that its…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Goldstein v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Baker v. SeldenSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Fred Fisher, Inc. v. DillinghamDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1924
- Peter Bartok v. Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., and Benjamin Suchoff, as Trustee of the Estate of Bela BartokCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
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3Cited by27 opinions
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- Engineering Dynamics, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee v. Structural Software, Inc., and S. Rao Guntur, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-AppellantsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
- Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. v. Leadership Software, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1994
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