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· 6/16/2017

Karow v. Fuchs

Citations

  • 695 F. App'x 966

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that Commerce abused its discretion in rejecting a clarification of record information by respondent
  • stating that this case raises the question of “whether the copyright holder is more appropriately asserting an exclusive right to a functional system, process, or method of operation that belongs in the realm of patents, not copyrights”
  • describing organization: “[e]ach package [i]s broken into classes and those in turn [are] broken into methods”
  • “The method specification is the idea. The method implementation is the expression. No one may monopolize the idea.”
  • “Google replicated what was necessary to achieve a degree of interoperability” with Java.
  • “The overall name tree, of course, has creative elements----”

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Judges: Bauer, Easterbrook, Rovner

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