NORRIS INDUSTRIES v. INTERN. TEL. & TEL. CORP.

No. 81-5915.

696 F.2d 918 (1983)

NORRIS INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION and David L. Ladd, Register of Copyrights, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 18, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, Wilfred C. Varn, Tallahassee, Fla., Harness, Dickey & Pierce, Joseph R. Papp, Charles H. Blair, Sohn A. Sinclair, Birmingham, Mich., for plaintiff-appellant.

Pennie & Edmonds, Robert M. Kunstadt, John E. Kidd, Joseph J.C. Ranalli, New York City, Robert J. Kelly, Tallahassee, Fla., Ronald W. Alice, New York City, for defendants-appellees.

Before RONEY and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and WISDOM, Senior Circuit Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 18, 1983.

RONEY, Circuit Judge:

This case involves whether wire-spoked wheel covers for automobiles are entitled to copyright protection as opposed to industrial design or some other trade protection. The district court in this copyright infringement suit concluded on summary judgment that the wheel covers are not entitled to copyright protection because they are useful articles without separable features. We affirm...

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