United States Ninth Circuit

Denial of a preliminary injunction for plaintiff, architectural firm, to prohibit defendant, a client, from using plaintiff's copyrighted designs on projects falling outside the scope of the parties' licensing agreement is reversed where plaintiff's appeal is not moot and plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits of its copyright infringement claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/13/2005
• Decided 01/11/2006
• Published 01/11/2006

Judges

• O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judge:, Before: BEEZER, O'SCANNLAIN, and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael J. McCue, Lewis and Roca LLP, Las Vegas, NV, argued the cause for the appellants;  W. West Allen, Lewis and Roca LLP, Las Vegas, NV, was on the briefs.


• For Appellees:
  
• John M. Naylor, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, NV, argued the cause for the appellee;  Samuel S. Lionel, Lionel Sawyer & Collins, Las Vegas, NV, was on the brief.