{"id":163089,"date":"2026-09-17T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=163089"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T19:29:34","slug":"ill-federal-judge-awards-350k-in-fees-in-copyright-noninfringement-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/17\/ill-federal-judge-awards-350k-in-fees-in-copyright-noninfringement-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Ill. Federal Judge Awards $350K in Fees in Copyright Noninfringement Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Farris essentially copied the formatting of Robin’s spreadsheet to make the prototype. Farris’s argument that he was the sole author of the product since its inception was an objectively flawed theory. Arguing that he was the sole author because he registered the copyright was a legally flawed theory,” said a federal judge in Chicago.<\/p>\n

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“Farris essentially copied the formatting of Robin’s spreadsheet to make the prototype. Farris’s argument that he was the sole author of the product since its inception was an objectively flawed theory. Arguing that he was the sole author because he registered the copyright was a legally flawed theory,” said a federal judge in Chicago.<\/p>\n

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“Farris essentially copied the formatting of Robin’s spreadsheet to make the prototype. Farris’s argument that he was the sole author of the product since its inception was an objectively flawed theory. Arguing that he was the sole author because he registered the copyright was a legally flawed theory,” said a federal judge in Chicago. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163096,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163089\/revisions\/163096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}