MacMillan Co. v. I.V.O.W. Corp.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HOLDEN, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff MacMillan Company has brought this action against the I.V.O.W. Corporation to recover compensatory and punitive damages incurred as a consequence of the defendant’s unauthorized use of certain plans, prepared by MacMillan, for the construction of an addition to a shopping center owned by I.V.O.W. MacMillan contends that the defendant’s improper use of its plans infringed MacMillan’s common law copyright in the plans, and unjustly enriched I.V.O.W. at the expense of the plaintiff. The court’s jurisdiction is invoked under…