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Software vendor liability is the issue of product liability for software bugs that cause harm, such as security bugs [1] or bugs causing medical errors. [2] For the most part, this liability does not exist in the United States.
The case has been of significant interest within the tech and software industries, as numerous computer programs and software libraries, particularly in open source, are developed by recreating the functionality of APIs from commercial or competing products to aid developers in interoperability between different systems or platforms.
As a subset of personal injury cases, product liability cases were extraordinarily rare, but it appears that in the few that were brought, the general rule at early common law was probably what modern observers would call no-fault or strict liability. [8] In other words, the plaintiff only needed to prove causation and damages. [8]
Yuba Power Products, Inc, was a California torts case in which the Supreme Court of California dealt with the torts regarding product liability and warranty breaches. The primary legal issue of the case was to determine whether a manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market proves to have a defect that causes ...
Case history; Prior actions: Preliminary injunction entered for plaintiff, 9-10-01: Subsequent action: none: Court membership; Judge sitting: Dean D. Pregerson: Case opinions; Plaintiff software company's product was sold rather than licensed to the defendant, who was therefore entitled to resell it in separate components.
Pages in category "Product liability case law" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Artifex is the exclusive licensor of the software product, Ghostscript, under the GNU General Public License Version 3. Hancom is a South Korean software company that used Ghostscript in software they were selling. This case concerned Hancom's failure to distribute or offer to provide the source code for their software.
In a 4-3 majority decision by Associate Justice Stanley Mosk, the court decided to impose a new kind of liability, known as market share liability.The doctrine evolved from a line of negligence and strict products liability opinions (most of which had been decided by the Supreme Court of California) that were being adopted as the majority rule in many U.S. states.