Anticircumvention under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Reverse Engineering: Recent Legal Developments

Post publish date: December 10, 2004

Following the proliferation of reverse engineering cases brought under the DMCA, the CRS analyzed two appellate decisions, namely Lexmark International, Inc. v. Static Control Components and Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc., which both alleged violations of DMCA anti-circumvention provisions with respect to development and sale of durable consumer goods.