Apple Computer, Inc., a California Corporation v. Franklin Computer Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the district court erred when it failed to consider the presumption of irreparable harm
• rejecting certain commercial constraints on programming as a helpful means of distinguishing idea from expression because they did “not enter into the somewhat metaphysical issue of whether particular ideas and expressions have merged”
• rejecting certain commercial constraints on programming as a helpful means of distinguishing idea from expression because they did \not enter into the somewhat metaphysical issue of whether particular ideas and expressions have merged\
• reversing a district court order that considered the harm to a knowing infringer
• discussing merger in context of copyrightability of computer operating system program
• discussing merger in context of copyrightability of computer operating system program

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).