Computer Associates International v. Quest Software, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing copyrights in original software with “even hundreds or thousands of lines” of previous source code
• under the Illinois UTSA, ―[t]here is a presumption of irreparable harm to the plaintiff in cases of trade secret misappropriation‖
• mathematical and typographical errors in expert's report, which he admitted at his deposition, went to weight, not admissibility
• “There does not appear to be any perfect way to compare millions of lines of source codes, especially in a case like this where the plaintiff's claim both literal and non-literal copying of the code.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).