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Chicago IP Litigation Tracking Northern District of Illinois IP Cases

Court Requires Copyright Plaintiff to Include Allegedly Infringing Work in Complaint

Posted in Pleading Requirements

Consumers Digest Comms., LLC v. Westpoint Home, Inc., No. 08 C 3486, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Dec. 9, 2008) (Shadur, Sen. J.).

Plaintiff filed an amended complaint including a copyright claim, after Judge Shadur orally granted defendant’s motion to dismiss its original copyright and related state law claims.  The Court noted that the amended complaint did not include a copy of the allegedly infringing publications as exhibits.  The Court, therefore, ordered plaintiff to deliver copies of the allegedly infringing publications to the Court and defendant’s counsel.