Gates Rubber v. Bando - Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison

Fri Jul 16 2004 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

Hopefully, it won't come to this but SCO has like 30 lawyers... I've always wanted to know more about abstract- filtration- comparison tests.

SCO cited the case, Gates Rubber v. Bando, in its Reply Memorandum re Discovery, (footnote 7 on page 20) and they are relying on it for their rungs of the ladder concept/music riffs-novel analogy, regarding structure, sequence and organization being copyrightable, so I thought it would make sense to add it to our permanent collection. Non-literal copying is the main issue, judging from their Reply Memorandum. Here's more information on abstraction-filtration-comparison, and here is a bit more. Note the table of contents in the first link for more copyright topics. Also on our Legal Links page, you'll find more on Copyright Law and some of the cases referred to here, including an article on the Lotus case. You'll find more cases on BitLaw's "Important Copyright Decisions" page.