M.G.B. Homes, Inc. v. Ameron Homes, Inc., and Daniel James Brognano, Rick Brognano and Richard Patton

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a home builder was not a co-author of a floor plan, in part because “[h]is ideas, conveyed to the author of the copyrighted work . . . were not copyrightable”
• approving district court’s decision to allow suit to proceed only after plaintiff received Copyright Office’s response to registration application and amended the complaint
• approving 11 district court’s decision to allow suit to proceed only after plaintiff received 12 Copyright Office’s response to registration application and amended the 13 complaint
• “A claim for unfair competition based upon allegations of copying, and in the absence of proof of any element of unfair competition other than copying, is clearly pre-empted by the Act.”
• “A claim for unfair competition based upon allegations of copying, and in the absence of proof of any element of unfair competition other than copying, is clearly pre-empted by the Act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).