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· 6/21/2007

BUC International Corp. v. International Yacht Council Ltd.

Citations

  • 489 F.3d 1129
  • 83 U.S.P.Q. 2d (BNA) 1129
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 14713
  • 2007 WL 1774643

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that the merger doctrine “provides that ‘expression is not protected . . . where there is only one or so few ways of expressing an idea that protection of the expression would effectively accord protection to the idea itself’”
  • noting that the fair use defense went to the jury

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Judges: Tjoflat, Barkett, Fuller

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