Actions and Claims
Vault sought preliminary and permanent injunctions against Quaid to prevent them from advertising and selling RAMKEY. They also sought an order to impound all of Quaid's copies of RAMKEY, as well as $100,000,000 in monetary damages. Vault asserted the following claims:
- Infringement of the exclusive right to copy by copying PROLOK into RAM for a purpose other than that intended by Vault
- Contributory infringement by providing software that customers can use to infringe on Vault's and Vault's clients' copyrights
- Creation of an infringing derivative work by one version of RAMKEY that contained approximately 30 characters of the PROLOK source code
- Breach of license agreement based on Louisiana License Act, which Vault utilized to attempt to prohibit decompilation and disassembly of its software
Read more about this topic: Vault Corp. V. Quaid Software Ltd.
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