 Since that case, the United States Copyright Office has published policy decisions acknowledging the registration of computer programs that generate typefaces.In this case, the court held that Adobe's Utopia font was protectable under copyright and Southern Software, Inc.'s Veracity font was substantially similar and infringing.In 1979, The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held in "Eltra Corp. v. Ringer" that typefaces are industrial designs which cannot exist independently as works of art.