Innovation Industries, LLC v. The Partnerships Identified on Schedule A, No. 25 C 3157, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Feb. 19, 2026) (Bucklo, J.).

Judge Bucklo granted summary judgment to Innovation Industries, LLC on its copyright infringement claims against three Amazon sellers, UMagic, Perbelee, and Sumnify, who had been marketing knockoff hummingbird feeder heaters using Innovation’s copyrighted product images in this Schedule A case. The Court awarded $150,000 in damages per defendant after finding willful infringement.

Innovation sells heaters for hummingbird feeders designed to support overwintering hummingbirds in colder climates. Defendants operated Amazon storefronts selling apparent counterfeits of Innovation’s products, collectively earning $640,844.95 in gross revenues from the sale of 25,385 products. Although the defendants maintained different online stores under different names, the Court found they were operating in concert.

When Innovation moved for summary judgment, the defendants’ only response was to fire their counsel, failing to respond to either the summary judgment motion or Innovation’s Rule 56.1 statement of facts.

The Court found Innovation established both elements of copyright infringement: ownership of valid copyrights (supported by copyright certificates) and copying of original elements. The defendants’ products and marketing photographs were “so similar to Innovation’s copyrights as to give rise to the inference that defendants in fact copied Innovation’s works.”

The Court found the infringement was willful, noting that the “replication of Innovation’s products and the duplication of a photograph from Innovation’s website is convincing evidence that defendants were aware the works they were using were copyrighted.”

On damages, the Court awarded $150,000 per defendant in damages (equivalent to maximum statutory damages for the infringement of a copyrighted work), noting that the collective award was less than defendants’ combined gross revenues of over $640,000. The Court also awarded reasonable costs, fees, and injunctive relief.