Coquico, Inc. v. Rodriguez-Miranda

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that several elements of a plush toy depicting a tree frog were copyrightable
• stating that whether the movant’s claim likely will succeed on the merits “normally weighs heaviest in the decisional scales”
• stating that whether the movant’s claim likely will succeed on the merits “normally weighs heaviest in the decisional scales” (citation omitted)
• stating that whether the movant’s claim likely will succeed on the merits “normally weighs heaviest in the decisional scales”
• noting that “the court should not lose sight of the forest for the trees; that is, it should take pains not to focus too intently on particular unprotected elements at the expense of a work’s overall protected expression”
• noting that “[t]he doctrine of scènes à faire denies copyright protection to elements of a work that are for all practical purposes indispensable, or at least customary, in the treatment of a given subject matter” (internal citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).