ATARI, INC. v. JS & A GROUP, INC.

Appeal No. 84-742.

747 F.2d 1422 (1984)

ATARI, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. JS & A GROUP, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

November 8, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George H. Gerstman, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

David E. Springer, Chicago, Ill., for appellee; Daniel W. Vittum, Jr. and Wendi Sloane Weitman, Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Charles A. Laff, Chicago, Ill., for intervenor; Larry L. Saret and Harry C. White, Jr., Chicago, Ill., of counsel.

Karen G. Bender, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, Bar Association of D.C.

David W. Plant, New York City, for amicus curiae, The Committee on Patents of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Jacob N. Erlich, Waltham, Mass., for amicus curiae, Boston Patent Law Association.

Jack Q. Lever, Jr., Washington, D.C., Charles L. Gholz, Arlington, Va., Frank P. Cihlar, Washington, D.C., and Roger W. Parkhurst, of Alexandria, Va., for amicus curiae, American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Alfred N. Goodman, Steven C. Lambert, Washington, D.C., Maurice Klitzman, Manassas, Va. and James B. Lynn, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, Bar Association, District of Columbia.

James H. Laughlin, Jr., Arlington, Va., for amicus curiae, Virginia State Bar PTC SEC.

Ronald J. Palenski, Arlington, Va., for amicus curiae Data Processing (Merits).

Marie V. Driscoll, New York City, for amicus curiae U.S. Trademark Association.

Don W. Martens, Newport Beach, Cal., for amicus curiae Orange County Patent Law Association.

Stephen Y. Chow, Boston, Mass., for amicus curiae Boston Bar Association.

John S. Kingdon, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae AD HOC Committee on Anti-trust Lawyers.

Dorothy Schrader, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae Comments of Copyright.

Before MARKEY, Chief Judge, and FRIEDMAN, RICH, DAVIS, BALDWIN, KASHIWA, BENNETT, MILLER, SMITH, NIES, and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.


ORDER

MARKEY, Chief Judge.

Atari, Inc. (Atari) moved to transfer this appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, asserting lack of jurisdiction in this court. The motion will be denied.

Background

On November 18, 1983, Atari, Inc. (Atari) filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against JS & A Group, Inc. (JS & A), alleging contributory copyright...

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