CNC Software, LLC v. Global Engineering Limited Liability Company
Opinion
trial_court Opinion
1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 CNC SOFTWARE, LLC, Case No. 22-cv-02488-EMC (EMC)
8 Plaintiffs, ORDER REGARDING PLAINTIFF'S 9 v. PROPOSED ORDER TO USMS
10 GLOBAL ENGINEERING LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, et al., Docket Nos. 42, 46 11 Defendants. 12 13 Plaintiff CNC Software, LLC (“CNC”) brought this action against Defendants Global 14 Engineering LLC (“Global”) and its president, Edwin Escobar for copyright infringement pursuant 15 to the Copyright Act 17 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., and for breach of contract. Docket No. 1 16 (Complaint). At issue was whether Defendants illegally pirated CNC’s Mastercam® software. Id. 17 The software is a suite of Computer Aided Design/Manufacturing software applications including 18 a product used in industries including aerospace, medicine, and transportation. Id. ¶ 26. 19 Mastercam is protected by at least thirteen copyrights owned by CNC. Id. ¶¶ 12–24. 20 In July 2023 this Court adopted in part Magistrate Judge Hixson’s report and 21 recommendation and…