SAPC, INC. v. LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORP.

Civ. A. No. 87-0858-K.

699 F.Supp. 1009 (1988)

SAPC, INC., Plaintiff, v. LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION and Mitchell D. Kapor, Defendants, and LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION and New Sai, Inc., Counterclaim-plaintiffs, v. SAPC, INC., Julian E. Lange, Richard A. Lange and Tracy R. Licklider, Counterclaim-Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

As Modified December 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark A. Michelson, Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, Bernard J. Bonn, III, Boston, Mass., for Mitchell D. Kapor.

Henry B. Gutman, Esq., Kerry Conrad, O'Sullivan Graw & Karabell, New York City, for Lotus Development Corp.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Thomas J. Dongherty, Lori Weiner Lander, Boston, Mass., for Lotus Development Corp. and New SAI, Inc., counterclaim plaintiffs.


OPINION

KEETON, District Judge.

I.

The complaint in this case alleges a claim for copyright infringement. Defendants assert, among other defenses, that any cause of action that may have existed was assigned to defendant Lotus Development Corporation in an Asset Purchase Agreement of June 7, 1985 between plaintiff, as seller, and Lotus as buyer. Jurisdiction in this court depends upon whether plaintiff has asserted a claim arising under the Copyright...

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