context: The idea of having a placement zone like the one described above can only be represented in so many ways: the idea and the expression have merged. The boundary line of the placement zone must be filtered out under the Altai analysis.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 982 F.2d 707, 707
citation_a.parenthetical: court must filter out expression "dictated by considerations of efficiency, so as to be necessarily incidental to that idea"
citation_a.sentence: See Altai, 982 F.2d at 707 (court must filter out expression “dictated by considerations of efficiency, so as to be necessarily incidental to that idea”).
citation_b.signal: cf.
citation_b.identifier: 864 F.Supp. 1582, 1582
citation_b.parenthetical: finding merg er where there was a "limited range of expression available to depict places."
citation_b.sentence: Cf. MiTek, 864 F.Supp. at 1582 (finding merg er where there was a “limited range of expression available to depict places.”)