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Volume: 10 Issue: 5
( 2010)
Keywords:
vernor v autodesk
us
us court appeals
software purchaser
licensee
software
sale doctrine
restrictions
software creater
Authors:
mitchell zimmerman
jennifer stanley
Organisations:
fenwick & west llp
Jurisdictions:
us
SOFTWARE: In Vernor v Autodesk, the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit ruled that a software purchaser is a licensee of the software in question rather than its owner - thus, the first sale doctrine did not apply as the use restrictions imposed by the software creater were legal.
Vernor v Autodesk
No. 09-35969, 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 18957
The US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit ruled that a software purchaser is a licensee of the software in question rather than its owner - thus, the first sale doctrine did not apply as the use restrictions imposed by the software creater were legal.
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