Issaenko v. University of Minnesota

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JOHN R. TUNHEIM, District Judge.

This case arises out of Plaintiff Olga Issaenko’s brief tenure as a research sci*993entist in the laboratory of Defendant Dr. Martina Bazzaro at the University of Minnesota’s Masonic Cancer Center. The heart of Issaenko’s claims is that, without Bazzaro’s knowledge or assistance, she developed written materials and figures based on experiments and research that she performed during her employment at the Masonic Cancer Center and that Baz-zaro later claimed to own the copyrights in those materials. Issaenko brings eleven statutory,…