United States Ninth Circuit

Orders entering final judgment following a jury trial against a sheriff's department and awarding a software company attorneys' fees and costs in a copyright infringement case are affirmed where the department's copying constituted copyright infringement despite its configuration of computers such that the total number of workstations able to access the installed software did not exceed the total number of licenses purchased by the department.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/07/2005
• Decided 05/17/2006
• Published 05/17/2006

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge., Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, and STEPHEN S. TROTT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Dennis G. Martin, Blakely, Sofoloff, Taylor & Zafman, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants., Tod L. Gamlen and Keith L. Wurster, Baker & McKenzie LLP, Palo Alto, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.