Noninfringement, Expert Disqualification Argued In 6th Circuit Source Code Suit

(June 29, 2022, 5:32 PM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — In briefs filed June 8 and 9, the appellees in a copyright infringement suit over computer source code ask the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court’s noninfringement judgment and its disqualification of the appellant’s expert, arguing that the lower court properly employed the doctrines of merger and scènes à faire and correctly found that the appellant failed to comply with the court’s expert report deadlines....