UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES v. BERKELEY SOFTWARE

Civ. No. 92-1667.

832 F.Supp. 790 (1993)

UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES, INC., Plaintiff, v. BERKELEY SOFTWARE DESIGN, INC.; The Regents of the University of California; and the Following Persons in their Individual and Official Capacity as Members of the Board of the Regents of The University of California: Pete Wilson, Leo T. McCarthy, Willie L. Brown, Jr., Bill Honig, David P. Gardner, Ralph M. Ochoa, Gail G. Anderson, William T. Bagley, Roy T. Brophy, Clair W. Burgener, Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, Glenn Campbell, Frank W. Clark, Jr., Diana Darnell, Tirso Del Junco, Alice J. Gonzales, Jeremiah F. Hallisey, S. Sue Johnson, Meredith J. Khachigian, Leo S. Kolligian, Howard H. Leach, S. Stephen Nakashima, Yori Wada, Dean A. Watkins, Harold M. Williams, Jacques S. Yeager, Carl J. Stoney, Jr., Paul Hall, Martin A. Trow and W. Elliot Browniee, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

September 8, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, New York City, George L. Graff, James W. Kennedy, Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., Newark, NJ, Michael D. Loprete, Gary F. Werner, Unix System Laboratories, Inc., Summit, NJ, Sanford Tannenbaum, Gen. Counsel, Theodore Weitz, Sr. Corporate Counsel, for plaintiff.

Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May, Oakland, CA, Joel Linzner, Carla J. Shapreau, University of California, Oakland, CA, James E. Holst, John F. Lundberg, Mary E. MacDonald, Post, Polak & Goodsel, Roseland, NJ, Frederick B. Polak, for defendant Regents of the University of California.

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Palo Alto, CA, Leslie A. Fithian, Saiber Schlesinger Satz & Goldstein, Newark, NJ, James H. Forte, for defendant Berkeley Software Design, Inc.


OPINION

DEBEVOISE, District Judge.

Plaintiff Unix System Laboratories, Inc. ("USL") instituted this action seeking relief from Defendants' past and prospective distribution of computer software in alleged violation of Plaintiff's proprietary rights in the UNIX operating system. Defendants now move to dismiss all of Plaintiff's claims against the Regents in their individual and official capacities ("the Regents"), and four of Plaintiff's five claims...

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