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Top citers, strongest first. 4 distinct citers.
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The Gates Rubber Co. v. Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.
See Plains Cotton Co-op Ass’n. v. Goodpasture Computer Serv., Inc., 807 F.2d 1256, 1262 (5th Cir.), cert. denied 484 U.S. 821 , 108 S.Ct. 80 , 98 L.Ed.2d 42 (1987); Apple Computer, 799 F.Supp. at 1022-26 .
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Comprehensive Technologies International, Incorporated v. Software Artisans, Incorporated
See id. (wrongful use of a trade secret constitutes misappropriation). 31 We find instructive the Fifth Circuit's decision in Plains Cotton Cooperative Ass'n v. Goodpasture Computer Service, Inc., 807 F.2d 1256, 1263 (5th Cir.), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 821 , 108 S.Ct. 80 , 98 L.Ed.2d 42 (1987): 32 [T]he trade secrets allegedly involved here are particular implementations of software functions.... [T]he misuse of these implementations can occur only through copying the particular software designs on a sufficiently specific level.... [The trade secrets] are matters of design, where the issue of m…
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Manufacturers Technologies, Inc. v. Cams, Inc.
See Plains Cotton Cooperative v. Goodpasture Computer Service, 807 F.2d 1256 (5th Cir.1987), ce rt. denied, — U.S. —, 108 S.Ct. 80 , 98 L.Ed.2d 42 (1987) (where market factors played a significant role in determining the sequence and organization of software, organizational similarity between the plaintiffs and defendant’s programs is not sufficient to constitute infringement of plaintiffs computer program); Softklone, 659 F.Supp. 449 ; Q-Co. Industries, Inc. v. Hoffman, 625 F.Supp. 608 (S.D.N.Y.1985) *992 (where structural similarities between plaintiff’s and defendant’s teleprompti…
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Alabama
v.
Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture
v.
Lyng, Secretary of Agriculture
No. 86-1866.
Supreme Court of the United States.
Oct 5, 1987.
Published
C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied.