Daniel Schnapp Reflects on Crucial Court Judgment Involving the Inverse Ratio Rule
Trial lawyer and litigator Daniel Schnapp looks back on a prominent case from last year in which the so-called Inverse Ratio Rule was central. Including perhaps the most expected decisions in intellectual property law in late year, the previous summer, at last, saw a finish to the body of evidence against well known British musical gang Led Zeppelin over their hit melody, Stairway to Heaven. Revolved around the purported Inverse Ratio Rule, lawyer Daniel Schnapp thinks back on the judgment , where it was affirmed that the initial riff of the track encroached on the Spirit melody, Taurus. "Last year, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals attested the judgment of the United States District Court for the Central District of California after a jury preliminary," clarifies Daniel Schnapp, "dismissing a previous judgment and, all things considered, deciding for the band Led Zeppelin." The decision, Schnapp further uncovers, came considering a six-year-old copyright case in...