North Coast Industries v. Jason Maxwell, Inc.

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• stating that summary judgment is appropriate \where no reasonable trier-of-fact could find even trivial differences in the designs\ which were claimed to be copyrightable
• stating that \[o]riginality is the indispensable prerequisite for copyrightability\
• declining “to accept the view that, as a matter of law the differences in the placement of geometric shapes should be regarded as trivial,” and holding that the “plaintiff-was entitled to have the validity of its copyright determined by a trier-of-fact”
• declining “to accept the view that, as a matter of law the differences in the placement of 9 geometric shapes should be regarded as trivial,” and holding that the “plaintiff was entitled to have 10 the validity of its copyright determined by a trier-of-fact”

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