Challenge Printing Co. v. Electronics for Imaging, Inc.
United States District Court for the Northern District of California
500 F. Supp. 3d 952 (2020)
- Written by Darius Dehghan, JD
Facts
Challenge Printing Company, Inc. (Challenge Printing) (plaintiff) was a pharmaceutical printing company that sought to upgrade its then-current management information system. Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFI) (defendant) was a company that developed workflow-suite software for businesses, including its iQuote software. The parties entered into an agreement for the iQuote software, along with EFI’s installation services. EFI’s software was not specifically designed for Challenge Printing; rather, the iQuote software was standardized software installed within Challenge Printing’s then-existing information systems. Challenge Printing subsequently brought a number of legal claims against EFI relating to the iQuote software, including a breach-of-contract claim, but it failed to determine whether Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 2 applied to the agreement between it and EFI. UCC Article 2 established a set of default rules that courts used to determine whether an agreement for a sale of goods was breached. The district court took the matter under advisement.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Davila, J.)
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