Architectronics, Inc. v. Control Systems, Inc.
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
935 F.Supp. 425 (1996)
Architectronics (plaintiff) licensed its software's intellectual property to CSI (defendant) for joint development of a new computer-aided-design system, with Architectronics also entitled to market the resulting product; when Architectronics sued for breach years later, whether the UCC's four-year statute of limitations applied (barring the claim) or New York's six-year general contract limitations period applied (allowing it) turned on whether the UCC governed this agreement.
Whether the Uniform Commercial Code governs a software-license agreement if the agreement predominantly concerns intangible intellectual property rights in the software rather than a right to use the software for its intended end purpose.