iGate Federal Appellate Court Decisions

DESIGN DATA CORP. V. UNIGATE ENTERPRISE, INC.

Filed: February 9, 2017


Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Case Number: 14-16701

Copyright. The panel affirmed in part and reversed in part the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the defendants in an action under the Copyright Act. Design Data Corporation alleged that Unigate Enterprise, Inc., infringed the copyright on Design Data’s computer aided design program by downloading an unauthorized copy of the program and importing and distributing within the United States program output generated by a Chinese contractor using an unauthorized copy…