Divided Federal Circuit Makes Controversial Ruling That Nonliteral Elements of Cloned Software Are Not Protectable Because It Was Based on Open Source and Other Known Material | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) affirmed a district court ruling that the asserted nonliteral elements of a software program were not copyright protectable, in part,...

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