| National Basketball Assoc. v. Motorola | |
|---|---|
| Court | United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
| Full case name | The National Basketball Association and NBA Properties, Inc., Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant, v. Motorola, Inc., doing business as SportsTrax, Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems, Inc., doing business as Stats, Inc., Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee. |
| Decided | Jan 30 1997 |
| Holding | |
| NBA's claim for misappropriation was dismissed and the Appeals court affirmed the district court's dismissal of the NBA's claim for false advertising. | |
| Court membership | |
| Judges sitting | Ellsworth Van Graafeiland, Ralph K. Winter, Jr., and Frank Altimari, Circuit Judges |
| Keywords | |
| Misappropriation, Hot news | |
National Basketball Association v. Motorola, 105 F.3d 841 (2d Cir. 1997) is a United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit case in which the National Basketball Association (NBA) purported that Motorola and STATS infringed the NBA's copyright on the broadcast of games and misappropriated the data presented on the SportsTrax pager.