Legal Opinion
Design Data Corp. v. Unigate Enterprise, Inc.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided August 6, 2014No. Case No. 12-cv-04131-WHOPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Re: Dkt. Nos. 75, 104
ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
WILLIAM H. ORRICK, United States District Judge
The central issue on this motion for summary judgment is whether defendants can be liable for copyright infringement when there is no evidence that defendants copied or used plaintiffs copyrighted software other than having downloaded (but not installed) a copy of the software onto an external hard drive. To insure that plaintiff had ample opportunity to prove its case, I delayed the hearing on this motion for several months, allowed extensive discovery, and considered supplemental…
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