Architectronics, Inc. v. Control Systems, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• declining “to follow the formulation applied in American Movie,” and holding that “the extra element that saves a contract claim from preemption is the promise itself’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• claim that licensee released software based on copyrighted code that was the subject of a limited, exclusive license requiring royalty payments was not preempted
• because the “predominant feature” of license agreement for use of software “was a transfer of intellectual property rights,” common law statute of limitations applied rather than the UCC
• involving confidentiality agreements and an exclusive license agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).