Airframe Systems, Inc. v. L-3 Communications Corp.

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• ruling that even a claim that lost at summary judgment was not “objectively weak.”
• noting that \litigants - 24 - customarily bear responsibility for their own legal fees\
• noting that before a “comparison can take place, the plaintiff must necessarily establish the content of the copyrighted work that it contends was infringed” even if there is evidence of direct copying
• affirming denial of attorney’s fees despite plaintiff not establishing the content of copyrighted source code
• describing the substantial similarity test as turning on whether a reasonable, ordinary observer, upon examination of the two works, would conclude that the defendant unlawfully appropriated the plaintiff's protectable expression
• affirming denial of attorney’s fees for defending against claims where the claims were not “frivolous, improperly motivated, or objectively unreasonable,” and where there was “reasonably swift resolution” of the claims

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