Legal Opinion
Situation Management Systems v. ASP Consulting Group
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 28, 2008No. Civil Action 06-11557-WGYPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS AND RULINGS
YOUNG, District Judge.
Situation Management Systems (“SMS”) and ASP Consulting Group (“ASP”) compete to provide corporations and individuals with strategies for effective communication and negotiation in the workplace. See PL’s Mem. Supp. Summ. J. [Doc. No. 39] at 3-4. To that end, both companies offer workshops designed to “improv[e] business and personal productivity.” See Compl. [Doc. No. 1] ¶¶ 1-4. SMS brought this suit claiming that ASP infringes the copyrighted workbooks and training materials distributed in connection with three of its workshops. See Compl. ¶ 8.
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