Opinion ID: 659340
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: All Future Modifications of the MPO Program

Text: 43 We are uncertain whether the district court really intended to enjoin all future modifications of the MPO program, and if so, what it meant by such an injunction. The court's language in its Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law is certainly broad enough to suggest that it enjoined all future modifications and improvements of the MPO program. But the Judgment obscures the court's intentions by enjoining all modifications [of MPO] ... which are the subject of the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) issued March 15, 1990, because no MPO modifications were expressly the subject of the TRO. Indeed, no modifications of MPO existed at the time the TRO was entered: no legal action by K-T had yet compelled such modifications. We hold, however, that whatever the court intended in that regard, it lacked the authority to enjoin generically all future modifications of MPO. Rather, the most that it could enjoin were future modifications and improvements of MPO that are substantially similar to K-T's copyrighted Materials. 24 44 Under copyright law, the district court could enjoin only those future versions of MPO that are substantially similar to K-T's Licensed Materials. LSI is free to continue its efforts to devise a non-infringing management training program, notwithstanding any expansive language in the district court's opinion to the contrary. 25