Opinion ID: 628980
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: First Appeal: Kregos II.

Text: 9 On appeal, we remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings to determine whether Kregos had displayed enough selectivity to satisfy the requirement that his work be original. Kregos II, 937 F.2d at 710. We held that the validity of Kregos's compilation copyright could not be rejected for lacking, as a matter of law, the requisite originality and creativity. We also held that Kregos's forms did not evince a merger of idea and expression, because the potentially relevant data about pitching were numerous, and there were numerous means of expressing the idea of rating pitchers' performances. We further held that the district court erred in holding the blank form doctrine barred copyright in this case, because Kregos's forms, unlike check stubs, or a blank diary, convey information. See Kregos II, 937 F.2d at 708. We affirmed the district court's dismissal of Kregos's claims under Sec. 43(a) of the Lanham Trade-Mark Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 1125(a). 10