GlobeRanger Corporation v. Software AG

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that “at least part of the factual basis for GlobeRanger’s claims may fall outside the scope of copyright” and “[i]f none of the claims were preempted . . . there would not be federal jurisdiction under the complete preemption doctrine”
• stating that “real jurisdictional dispute” was whether Copyright Act preempted state claims
• “We hold that [s]ection 301(a) of the Copyright Act completely preempts the substantive field.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).