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· 10/19/2001

Softman Products Co., LLC v. Adobe Systems, Inc.

Citations

  • 171 F. Supp. 2d 1075
  • 45 U.C.C. Rep. Serv. 2d (West) 945
  • 2001 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17723
  • 2001 WL 1343955

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding a party had not shown likelihood of success on the merits where “each party [made] opposing representations as to a disputed fact” going directly to the central issue in the case
  • \Reading a notice on a box is not equivalent to the degree of assent that occurs when the software is loaded onto the computer and the consumer is asked to agree to the terms of the license.\
  • “Adobe frames the issue as a dispute about the ownership of intellectual property. In fact, it is a dispute about the ownership of individual pieces of Adobe software.”

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Judges: Pregerson

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