The district court initially ruled for Sega and issued an injunction preventing Accolade from continuing to reverse engineer the Genesis .
Accolade appealed the verdict to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit .
Although the district court initially ruled for Sega and issued an injunction preventing Accolade from continuing to reverse engineer the Genesis , Accolade appealed the verdict to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit .