United States Ninth Circuit

In a copyright infringement action under 17 U.S.C. sections 106(3) and 602(a), grant of summary judgment for defendant is reversed and remanded where non-counterfeit goods were first sold outside the U.S. and then imported for sale in the U.S. without the copyright holder's authorization, thus the first sale doctrine, section 109(a), does not apply.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/15/2008
• Decided 09/03/2008
• Published 09/03/2008

Judges

• MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judge:, Before:  BARRY G. SILVERMAN, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barry R. Levy and Andrea M. Gauthier, Horvitz & Levy LLP, Encino, CA;  David S. Richman and Kenneth E. Johnson, Theodora Oringher Miller & Richman, P.C., Los Angeles, CA;  and Matthew C. Wagner, Jess M. Collen, Thomas P. Gulick, Collen IP, Ossining, NY, for the plaintiff-appellant., W. Stephen Cannon and Seth D. Greenstein, Constantine Cannon LLP, Washington, D.C., for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Aaron J. Moss and Norman H. Levine, Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.