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WEST PUB. CO. v. MEAD DATA CENT., INC.

No. 85-5399.

799 F.2d 1219 (1986)

WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY, Appellee, v. MEAD DATA CENTRAL, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

September 4, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Willis, New York City, for appellant.

Vance K. Opperman, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.

Before ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges, and OLIVER, Senior District Judge.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Mead Data Central, Inc. (MDC) appeals from a preliminary injunction issued by the District Court for the District of Minnesota1 in a copyright-infringement action brought by West Publishing Company (West). West's claim is based upon MDC's proposed introduction of "star pagination," keyed to West's case reports, into the LEXIS system of computer-assisted legal research.

For more than a century, West has been...

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