9th Circuit Revives IP Dispute Over 1980s Home Computer System

( June 16, 2025, 4:05 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled that a Washington federal judge erred in finding that a software company lacked standing to bring a copyright infringement claim, partially reviving an intellectual property dispute involving a 1980s brand of computer that has had what the judge in a March 2023 grant of summary judgment called “a tortured history.”...