 The appeals court ruled that unintentional mistakes in the copyright notices of the newspaper strips did not invalidate the copyrights.Furthermore, Fawcett knew that DC Comics never intended to abandon the copyrights, and therefore Fawcett's infringement was not an innocent misunderstanding, and therefore Fawcett owed damages to DC Comics.The appeals court remanded the case back to the lower court to determine how much Fawcett owed in damages.