Midway Mfg. Co. v. Bandai-America, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• finding infringement on the same elements as well as copied music and introduction animation
• describing the “idea” of a Space Invader type game as an “outer space game[ ] wherein a defendant base or rocket ship, controlled by the player, attempts to fend off attacking hordes of aliens”
• Second and Seventh Circuits and many district courts have applied presumption of irreparable harm in copyright cases
• finding copyright infringement for opening scene of computer animated imagery
• finding graphical characters of video game were protectible expression

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).