BUSINESS TRENDS ANALYSTS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v.
The FREEDONIA GROUP, INC. and the Freedonia Group, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 1178, Docket 89-7156.
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
Argued May 26, 1989.
Decided Oct. 5, 1989.
James L. Stengel, New York City (Jeffrey A. Conciatori, Nicole van Ackere, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine, New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.
Michael T. Cornacchia III, Melville, N.Y. (John L. Ciarelli, Ciarelli Dempsey & Cornacchia, Melville, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.
Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, MESKILL and WINTER, Circuit Judges.
WINTER, Circuit Judge: This copyright action involves the infringement of a study of the robotics industry. The principal issue on appeal concerns the appropriate measure of damages where a late-registering plaintiff fails to prove out-of-pocket losses to itself or conventional profits to the infringer.
