The Gates Rubber Co. v. Bando Chemical Industries, Ltd.

U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · Decided 1993-10-19

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EBEL, Circuit Judge. The defendants appeal from the June 24, 1992, order of the district court in which it found that the defendants had infringed Gates’ copyright on an engineering computer program and wrongfully misappropriated trade secrets. We conclude that the district court erroneously extended copyright protection to certain unproteetable elements of the computer program. W…

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