United States Second Circuit

The alphabetical arrangement of the letters in the five-by-six block format on a quilt required some minimum degree of creativity and is thus copyrightable.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/15/2000
• Decided 12/03/2001
• Published 12/06/2001

Judges

• CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge., Before: CARDAMONE, CALABRESI, Circuit Judges, and HAIGHT , District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul R. Levenson, New York, NY (Kaplan Gottbetter & Levenson, LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Plaintiff Judi Boisson and American Country Quilts and Linens, Inc.


• For Appellees:
  
• G. Roxanne Elings, New York, NY (Sudipta Rao, Greenberg Traurig, LLP, New York, NY, of counsel), for Defendants Banian, Ltd. and Vijay Rao.