Norris Industries, Inc. v. International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation and David L. Ladd, Register of Copyrights

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “functional components of useful articles” cannot claim copyright protection
• the Copyright Office’s expertise in interpreting the copyright laws and applying them to the facts of copyright applications should be given deference
• “[There is a] distinction between works of applied art eligible for copyright protection and industrial designs ineligible for protection.”
• “Both case law and legislative history indicate that separability encompasses works of art that are either physically severable from the utilitarian article or conceptually severable.”
• “[S]eparability encompasses works of art that are either physically severable from the utilitarian article or conceptually severable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).