VERNOR V. AUTODESK, INC
FOR PUBLICATION UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT TIMOTHY S. VERNOR, No. 09-35969 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 2:07-cv-01189-RAJ AUTODESK, INC., OPINION Defendant-Appellant. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington Richard A. Jones, District Judge, Presiding Argued and Submitted June 7, 2010—Seattle, Washington Filed September 10, 2010 Before: William C. Canby, Jr., Consuelo M. Callahan and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge Callahan 13861 13864 VERNOR v. AUTODESK, INC. COUNSEL Jerome B. Falk (argued), Clara J. Shin, and Blake J. Lawit of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin P.C., and Michael A. Jacobs and George C. Harris of Morrison & Foer- ster LLP, for defendant-appellant Autodesk, Inc. Gregory A. Beck (argued) and Deepak Gupta of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, for plaintiff-appellee Timothy S. Vernor. Randi W. Singer, Mark J. Fiore, and Lisa R. Eskow of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, for amicus curiae eBay Inc. Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Sherwin Siy and John Bergmayer of Public Knowledge, for amicus curiae American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, Association of Research Libraries, Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Fron- tier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and U.S. PIRG. VERNOR v. AUTODESK, INC. 13865 Scott E. Bain, Keith Kupferschmid, and Mark Bohannon, for amicus curiae Software & Information Industry Association. Robert H. Rotstein, Patricia H. Benson, and J. Matthew Wil- liams of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, for amicus curiae Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. OPINION CALLAHAN, Circuit Judge: Timothy Vernor purchased several used copies of Autodesk, Inc.’s AutoCAD Release 14 software (“Release 14”) from one of Autodesk’s direct customers, and he resold the Release 14 copies on eBay.
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