UNICOLORS, INC., a California Corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. H&M HENNES & MAURITZ, L.P., a New York limited partnership, Defendant-Appellant., 52 F.4th 1054

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-The U.S. Court of Appeals held that a party seeking to invalidate a copyright registration under 17 U.S.C.S. § 411(b) had to demonstrate that the registrant submitted a registration application containing inaccuracies; the registrant knew that the application failed to comply with the requisite legal requirements; and the inaccuracies in question were material to the registration decision by the Register of Copyrights; [2]-The district court's conclusion that plaintiff did not know it submitted a registration application that contained false information because it lacked an intent to defraud the Copyright Office was plausibly supported by inferences drawn from the facts in the record and followed logically from the fact that the single-unit issue was an unsettled question of law at the time that the '400 Registration was submitted.