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MITEK HOLDINGS, INC. v. ARCE ENGINEERING CO., INC.

No. 94-5262.

89 F.3d 1548 (1996)

MITEK HOLDINGS, INCORPORATED, MiTek Industries, Incorporated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ARCE ENGINEERING COMPANY, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 5, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Quinn, Keith A. Rabenberg, St. Louis, MO, Stuart J. McGregor, Miami, FL, Baila H. Celedonia, Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, PC, New York City, for Appellants.

Gustavo Gutierrez, P.A., Miami, FL, Christopher M. Hewitt, Hewitt & Hewitt, P.C., Dallas, TX, for appellee.

Before BIRCH and CARNES, Circuit Judges, and SIMONS, Senior District Judge.

BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This case presents our circuit with an issue of first impression, namely, the scope of copyright protection afforded to nonliteral elements of a computer program. The holder of copyright registrations in three versions of a wood truss layout program brought an infringement action against a competitor and alleged infringement of several of the program's nonliteral elements, including the menu and submenu command tree structure and other elements...

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