Sega Enterprises Ltd., a Japanese Corporation v. Accolade, Inc., a California Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• accepting that copying as part of “reverse engineer[ing] a system to ensure compatibility” could be a valid purpose
• accepting that copying as part of “reverse engineer[ing] a system to ensure compatibility” could be a valid purpose
• accepting that copying as part of “reverse engineer[ing] a system to ensure compatibility” could be a valid purpose
• accepting that copying as part of “reverse engineer[ing] a system to ensure compatibility” could be a valid purpose
• labeling secondary use \intermediate\ and finding first factor in favor of for-profit company, even though ultimate purpose of copying was to develop competing commercial product, because immediate purpose of copying computer code was to study idea contained within computer program
• labeling secondary use \intermediate\ and finding first factor in favor of for-profit company, even though ultimate purpose of copying was to develop competing commercial product, because immediate purpose of copying computer code was to study idea contained within computer program

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).