Legal Opinion
Design Basics, LLC v. Forrester Wehrle Homes, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided March 27, 2018No. Case No. 3:15CV666PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
James G. Carr, , Sr. U.S. District Judge *937This is a copyright-infringement case.
Plaintiff Design Basics, LLC (DB), creates, markets, and licenses architectural plans for single-family homes. (Doc. 58 at ¶ 1). It contends that defendants-Forrester Wehrle Homes, Inc.; Wehrle Development, Ltd.; and their principals Jeffrey, Richard, and Joseph Wehrle (collectively, FWH)-infringed DB's copyrights in twenty-three architectural plans. (Id. at ¶¶ 35-36). The defendants allegedly did so by copying DB's plans, marketing the copied plans, creating unauthorized derivative works, and using DB's plans to…
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