Porto v. Guirgis

How courts have described this case

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

• “A copyright infringement claim is objectively unreasonable when the claim is clearly without merit or otherwise patently devoid of legal or factual basis.”
• “The primary purpose of the Copyright Act is to ‘encourage the origination of creative works by attaching enforceable property rights to them.’”
• claim objectively unreasonable when “clearly without merit or otherwise patently devoid of a legal or factual basis”(quoting Diplomatic Man, Inc. v. Nike, Inc., No. 08 Civ. 139 (GEL), 2009 WL 935674, at (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 7, 2009))
• outlining the two part test

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).