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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software
Date: 1999/04/30
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In article <7gce89$94q$2@netnews.upenn.edu>,
  hughett@chaplin.med.upenn.edu (Paul Hughett) wrote:
> The case is Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc.  The
> Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the claim that Galoob's
> enhancement device did not infringe on Nintendo's game.

On the game? or on the patent? I had (perhaps mis)remembered this as
a patent case. I do not recall a claim that the Galoob device was a
deriviative work which violated the copyright (which is what would
be relevant to the thread of discussion here).

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