What's really important here is not whether Bowers or Baystate/CadKey wins, but the precedent the court is setting with the facts as it presents them. This decision flies in the face of some well-known Federal Circuit Court decisions that have basically said that, in a case like this, the reverse engineering clause would apply only to aspects of Baystate's product that infringed Bowers' intellectual property rights. Instead, this court held federal copyright law would not "preempt or narrow the scope of Mr. Bowers' contract claim. Courts respect freedom of contract and do not lightly set aside freely entered agreements."
Why is the Federal Circuit Court ruling at all, don't they just rule on hardware? Where is the Federal Source Court? Kevin T. It's early _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
