ENGINEERING DYNAMICS, INC. v. STRUCTURAL SOFTWARE, INC.

No. 92-3444.

26 F.3d 1335 (1994)

ENGINEERING DYNAMICS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. STRUCTURAL SOFTWARE, INC., and S. Rao Guntur, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 13, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Cantrell, Roger L. Maxwell, H. Dale Langley, Jr., Johnson & Gibbs, Dallas, TX, for plaintiff-appellant.

Al Harrison, Denya Guntur, Houston, TX, for defendants-appellees.

Peter M.C. Choy, Am. Committee for Interoperable Systems, Mountain View, CA, for amicus curiae ACIS.

Before JOHNSON, JOLLY, and JONES, Circuit Judges.


EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

Fifteen years ago Engineering Dynamics, Inc. (EDI) successfully defended itself against claims that its computer program infringed registered copyrights held by Synercom Technology, Inc. on Synercom's user manuals and input formats. That case held that neither the input formats brought to the court's attention nor their sequence and organization were copyrightable. Synercom Technology, Inc. v. University Computing Co.,

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