Legal Opinion
Design Basics, LLC v. Forrester Wehrle Homes, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided May 23, 2019No. Case No. 3:15CV666PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
James G. Carr, Sr. U.S. District Judge
This is a copyright-infringement case in which the plaintiff, Design Basics, LLC (DB), alleges that the defendants - Forrester Wehrle Homes, Inc.; Forrester Wehrle Development, Ltd.; and their principals Jeffrey, Joseph, and Richard Wehrle (collectively, FWH) - infringed DB's copyrights in a series of architectural plans.
DB alleges that FWH copied its plans and/or used them without permission to build single-family homes in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. It also brings related claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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