Daniel Shen

Navarro v. Procter & Gamble, 17-cv-00406 (S.D. Ohio)

On June 14 of this year, a former graduate student of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (CAIIT) filed a complaint against architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) for alleged copyright infringement in the firm’s One World Trade Center design. Mr. Jeehoon Park, now an architect in Georgia, alleges that while he was a graduate student at CAIIT, members of SOM had access to his thesis for the design of a 122-story building that bears similarities to the One World Trade Center.

Cengage Learning v. Follett, 17-cv-04672 (S.D.N.Y.)

On April 20, 2017, Dr. Mary Lippitt filed a complaint against Mayo Clinic for the alleged infringement of one of her copyrighted works. Dr. Lippitt had registered various versions of a chart that presents a system for managing complex organizational change (the Managing Complex Change Chart, or “MCC Chart”), and had exclusively licensed those works to Enterprise Management Limited, a consulting firm Dr. Lippitt founded and the joint plaintiff here.