Decison That Opens Doors

A flake of a belated even out from the IPKat. CE Pro reports that the USA Supreme Court has turned downwards an appeal from Chamberlain Group, the makers of garage door openers. Chamberlain Group brought an activeness against Skylink, the makers of universal garage door transmitters, claiming that Skylink had infringed its rights nether the DMCA which protected the copyrighted software that operated its transmitter. Chamberlain’s claim was dismissed past times both the Illinois District Court together with the Federal Circuit together with past times refusing to necessitate heed an appeal, the Supreme Court has made it clear that it has zippo to add together to the lower courts’ decisions.

thinks this is quite right. Software to run mechanism isn’t the classify of copyright textile that the DMCA is prepared to protect.

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