MEDECO SECURITY LOCKS, INC. v. SWIDEREK

No. 80-2784.

680 F.2d 37 (1981)

MEDECO SECURITY LOCKS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas V. SWIDEREK and Continental Micro, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Fitzgibbon, Fitzgibbon, Roehrig, Greenawalt & Gilhooly, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

G. Franklin Rothwell, Bernard, Rothwell & Brown, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before SWYGERT, and PELL, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

Defendant Swiderek has appealed to this court from the district court's grant of a preliminary injunction which prohibited Swiderek from printing, publishing, or selling a book of lock and key code numbers in competition with a book copyrighted by plaintiff Medeco. The books inform locksmiths how to produce various keys to fit Medeco's "high-security" locks and for many years Medeco has made its code book available only to those locksmiths who have purchased...

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