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GENERAL UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS, INC. v. LEE

Nos. 01-21114, 02-20312, 02-21002, 02-21311, 03-20076 and 03-20092.

379 F.3d 131 (2004)

GENERAL UNIVERSAL SYSTEMS, INC.; World Trade Systems, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Jose S. Lopez; Plaintiff-Intervenor Defendant-Appellant, Eli Nassar, Third Party Defendant-Appellant, v. Larry Mason LEE; Larry Mason Lee & Associates, Intervenor Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HAL, Inc.; et al., Defendants, HAL, Inc.; Joe R. Herrin; Ernest Allen Parkin, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, Panalpina, Inc.; Fritz Companies, Inc.; U.S. Crating, Inc.; Transworld Logistics, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. General Universal Systems, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Boaz Export Crating Company; Cargo Crating Company; Dixie Box and Crating of Texas, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. General Universal Systems, Inc.; World Trade Systems, Inc.; Jose S. Lopez, Plaintiffs-Counter Defendants-Appellants, v. HAL, Inc.; Joe R. Herrin; Ernest Allen Parkin, Defendants-Counter Claimants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Eli Nassar, Third Party Defendant-Appellant. General Universal Systems, Inc., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Boaz Export Crating Company; Cargo Crating Company; Dixie Box and Crating of Texas, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. General Universal Systems, Inc.; World Trade Systems, Inc.; Jose S. Lopez, Plaintiffs-Appellants, Eli Nassar, Third Party Defendant-Appellant, v. HAL, Inc.; et al., Defendants, HAL, Inc.; Jose R. Herrin; Ernest Allen Parkin, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, Panalpina, Inc.; Fritz Companies, Inc.; U.S. Crating, Inc.; Transworld Logistics, Inc., Defendant-Appellee. General Universal Systems, Inc.; World Trade Systems, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, Jose S. Lopez, Plaintiff-Intervenor Defendant-Appellant, Eli Nassar, Third Party Defendant-Appellant, v. HAL, Inc.; et al., Defendants, HAL, Inc.; Joe R. Herrin; Ernest Allen Parkin, Defendants-Third Party Plaintiffs-Appellees, Panalpina, Inc.; Fritz Companies, Inc.; U.S. Crating, Inc.; Transworld Logistics, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 20, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia Wilson Frost (argued), Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Anita Kawaja, J. Ken Johnson, Fleming & Associates, Paul Lee Mitchell, Patrick Andrew Zummo, Zummo, Mitchell & Perry, Keith D. Jaasma, Slusser, Wilson & Partridge, Houston, TX, for General Universal Systems, Inc., World Trade Systems, Inc., Lopez and Nassar.

William Samuel Chesney, III, Frank, Elmore, Lievens, Chesney & Turet, Houston, TX, for Lee and Larry Mason Lee & Associates.

Daryl G. Dursum (argued), Adams & Reese, Houston, TX, Joseph W. Looney, Robert N. Markle, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, for HAL, Inc., Herrin, Parkin, Panalpina, Inc., Fritz Companies, Inc., U.S. Crating, Inc. and Transworld Logistics, Inc.

Russell T. Lloyd, Joseph Michael Gourrier, O'Quinn, Laminack & Pirtle, Houston, TX, for General Universal Systems, Inc.

Mark C. Harwell, Cotham, Harwell & Evans, Houston, TX, for Boaz Export Crating Co., Cargo Crating Co., Dixie Box and Crating of Texas, Inc., Herrin and Parkin.

Before HIGGINBOTHAM, STEWART and PRADO, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

These consolidated cases arise from a copyright dispute between General Universal Systems, Inc. ("GUS") and HAL, Inc. GUS sued HAL, two of its officers, and several of HAL's customers claiming that HAL infringed its copyright in a freight packaging software system, misappropriated related trade secrets, violated the Lanham Act, and breached a contract with Joe Lopez. The district court dismissed GUS's copyright, Lanham Act, and trade secret claims on summary...

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