Legal Opinion
Kehoe Component Sales Inc. v. Best Lighting Products, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 5, 2015No. 14-3347PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GRIFFIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal stems from a manufacturer’s decision to copy a former collaborator’s products and market the cloned products as its own. After Best Lighting Products, Inc. (“Best”) brought to appellants (collectively, “Pace”) the idea to manufacture certain specialized lighting products for Best, Pace agreed to do so. But after Pace manufactured enough units to fill Best’s product orders, Pace used the same molds (or “tooling”) to manufacture thousands of additional units of exactly the same products. Pace then began selling these cloned products under its own name…
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