National Labor Relations Board v. Rochester Institute of Technology

How courts have described this case

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• upholding finding of no substantial similarity between two products where their particularized expression of the same unprotectable idea—a “superhuman muscleman” crouching in a traditional fighting pose—differed based on the manner in which they “overemphasiz[ed] certain muscle groups”
• “The rendering of [an unprotectable idea] is not in itself protectable; only the particularized expression of that idea . . . can be protected.”

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