ULTRAFLO CORPORATION, Plaintiff - Appellant v. PELICAN TANK PARTS, INCORPORATED; THOMAS JOSEPH MUELLER; PELICAN WORLDWIDE, INCORPORATED, Defendants - Appellees, 845 F.3d 652

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HOLDINGS: [1]-That the valve design was within the subject matter of copyright did not, on its own, mean that the state claim was preempted; [2]-The equivalent rights inquiry looked not at the rights Congress actually provided but at the type of rights it had the power to confer; [3]-The Copyright Act preempted the company's unfair competition claim.