Legal Opinion
FM Industries, Inc. v. Citicorp Credit Services, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 22, 2010No. 08-3154, 08-3781, 09-1382, 09-1406, 09-1637PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
FM Industries sued Citicorp Credit Services for copyright infringement. The copyrighted work is computer software'— “The Ultimate Collection and Network Software” or TUCANS — designed to help lawyers to collect debts and lenders to monitor how its lawyers are doing. The suit also named the Law Offices of Ross Gelfand, LLC, contending that it continued using the software after Citicorp dropped its license and told outside lawyers to stop using TUCANS. (There were still more defendants, whose dismissal, see 2007 WL 4335264, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90129 (N.D.Ill.Dec. 5,…
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