The federal appellate court determined there was a factual dispute regarding whether the plaintiff, LADS Network Solutions, had actual knowledge of an error in its source code for a trademark application.
Declining to address questions regarding valid copyright registrations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a summary judgment order based on the premise that a software management company’s code copyright was invalid because of inaccuracies.
On Wednesday, the federal appellate court determined there was a factual dispute regarding whether the plaintiff, LADS Network Solutions, had actual knowledge of an error in its source code for a trademark application. LADS, a software management company, filed suit in 2019 against the defendants, Agilis Systems and its subsidiaries, for copyright infringement, claiming Agilis continued to use its system, GPStrac, after its license expired. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri sided with the defendants, agreeing with Agilis that the copyright should be invalidated due to inaccuracies in the code.
