Michigan Copyright Law
United States of America v. Jon Q. Wright v. Cornhole Stop, LLC and Shirley Kowtko
Detroit, Michigan intellectual property lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendants on copyright infringement theories.... More...
$1 (12-06-2023 - MI)Crystal Ludwig v. Township of Van Buren
Plaintiff Crystal Ludwig is an exotic dancer challenging the nudity ordinances of Van Buren Township under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Ludwig works for Garter Belt, Inc., an entity that operates a strip club and is currently enjoined from violating the Van Buren nudity ordinances. This injunction was issued as part of a prior suit, in which Garter Belt unsuccessfully challenged the ordinances. In light o... More...
$0 (06-20-2012 - MI)Dassault Systems, S.A. v. Keith Childress dba Practical Catia Training
Plaintiff-Appellee Dassault Systemes, SA ("Dassaultâ€) filed suit against Defendant-Appellant Keith Childress, d.b.a. Practical Catia Training ("Childressâ€), seeking damages for copyright and trademark infringement, unfair competition, and Michigan Consumer Protection Act violations arising from Childress's allegedly unauthorized use of Dassault's name and software licenses to operate a... More...
$0 (12-13-2011 - MI)Multimatic, Inc. v. Faurecia Interior Systems USA, Inc.
Faurecia Interior Systems USA appeals (1) the district court's summary judgment decision that it breached a confidentiality agreement with Multimatic and (2) the jury's $10 million damage award. Multimatic cross-appeals the district court's exclusion of its damages expert, who claimed Multimatic suffered an additional $28.7 million in damages. Because the district court properly granted summary ju... More...
$0 (12-22-2009 - MI)Digital Filing Systems, LLC v. Aditya International and Akhilesh Agarwal
This case is before this Court for the third time. In the first appeal, Case No. 05-1796, we upheld the district court's entry of a Default Judgment against Defendants-Appellants on Plaintiff-Appellee's Complaint for copyright infringement. In the second appeal, Case No. 05-2101, we upheld in part the district court's award of statutory damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys' fees, and reversed... More...
$0 (04-06-2009 - MI)Sanford Green, et al. v. Norman H. Ziegelman, et al.
Defendants appeal as of right a $156,313 judgment entered by the circuit court in favor of plaintiffs and against defendant Norman H. Ziegelman (Ziegelman), individually, on plaintiffs' claim of breach of an architect agreement. Ziegelman's liability for the breach was determined postjudgment through proceedings supplementary to judgment, and liability was predicated on an alter ego theory, with t... More...
$0 (02-03-2009 - mi)Compuware v. IBM
<P>Compuware Corporation sued IBM Corporation for copyright infringement, anti-trust law abuses and unfair competitive acts. Compuware claimed that IBM used Compuware source code in IBM's File Manager and Fault Analyzer tools; illegally tied customer purchases of mainframe software tools to purchases of other key IBM software products; steered its services customers to its own products without fa... More...
$400000000 (03-23-2005 - MI)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=03a0355p.06" target="_new">Stephen F. Gordon v. Nextel Communciations and Mullen Advertising</a>
<P>Plaintiff Stephen F. Gordon brought suit against Nextel Communications and Nextel's advertising agency, Mullen Advertising, Inc., for copyright infringement for the unauthorized use of several of Gordon's dental illustrations in a television commercial for Nextel's two-way text messaging. The district court found that Gordon created the illustrations; nevertheless, the court granted defendants'... More...
$0 (10-06-2003 - MI)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=02a0341p.06" target="_new">Nartron Corporation v. STMicroelectronics, Inc.</a>
Nartron is a Michigan corporation with its principal place of business in Reed City, Michigan. Nartron develops and produces advanced electronic devices including sensors, acoustic devices, displays, controls, harnesses and connectors, lamps, flashers and switches. <P> ST is a Delaware corporation having a principal place of business in Carrollton, Texas.(1) ST manufactures and supplies se... More...
$0 (10-01-2002 - MI)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=01a0295p.06" target="_new">Murray Hill Publications v. ABC Communications</a>
Plaintiffs Murray Hill Publications, Inc. and Rosary Take-One Productions Ltd. ("plaintiffs") brought this action against ABC Communications d/b/a WJR Radio ("WJR") raising federal claims of copyright infringement and violation of the Lanham Act, and state law claims of conversion, unjust enrichment, quantum meruit, and unfair competition. The district court granted summary judgment to WJR on all ... More...
$0 (08-30-2001 - MI)<a href="http://pacer.ca6.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=01a0210p.06" target="_new">Wrench LLC v. Taco Bell Corp.</a>
This case raises a question of first impression in this circuit regarding the extent to which the Copyright Act preempts state law claims based on breach of an implied-in-fact contract. Plaintiffs-Appellants Wrench LLC, Joseph Shields, and Thomas Rinks brought this diversity action against Defendant-Appellee Taco Bell Corporation ("Taco Bell"), claiming breach of implied contract and various torts... More...
$0 (07-06-2001 - MI)Murray Hill Publications, Inc. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
Copyright Infringement Claim - Brian Webster claimed that 20th Century Fox stole the story line for the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "Jingle All the Way" from a copyrighted script sent to Fox by Webster in 1994.... More...
$19000000 (03-08-2001 - MI)Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. et al. v. T & F Enterprises, Inc., et al.
Copyright Infringement - Intellectual Property - Plaintiffs were thirteen motion picture corporations and partnerships that hold the copyrights or exclusive licenses under the copyrights to various motion pictures released for distribution on videocassette. Defendant operated a video rental business out of a store located in Trenton, Michigan. Also named as defendants were the officers of the vi... More...
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