7th Circuit: No Evidence Of Copying In Coin-Counting Software Dispute

( August 11, 2026, 8:25 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed an Illinois federal judge’s summary judgment against a plaintiff-appellant technology company, holding that there was no evidence on the record to support its claims that another entity misappropriated copyrighted source code for a coin-counting machine the plaintiff-appellant developed for a banking entity based in the United Kingdom....