OMEGA S.A. v. COSTCO WHOLESALE CORP.

Nos. 07-55368, 07-56206.

541 F.3d 982 (2008)

OMEGA S.A., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 3, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry R. Levy and Andrea M. Gauthier, Horvitz & Levy LLP, Encino, CA; David S. Richman and Kenneth E. Johnson, Theodora Oringher Miller & Richman, P.C., Los Angeles, CA; and Matthew C. Wagner, Jess M. Collen, Thomas P. Gulick, Collen IP, Ossining, NY, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Aaron J. Moss and Norman H. Levine, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

W. Stephen Cannon and Seth D. Greenstein, Constantine Cannon LLP, Washington, D.C., for the amici curiae.

Before: BARRY G. SILVERMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.


MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:

In this opinion, we address whether the Supreme Court's decision in Quality King Distributors, Inc. v. L'anza Research International, Inc., 523 U.S. 135, 118 S.Ct. 1125, 140 L.Ed.2d 254 (1998), requires us to overrule our precedents that allow a defendant in a copyright infringement action to claim the "first sale doctrine" of 17 U.S.C. § 109(a) as a defense only where the disputed copies...

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