JOHN W. SHAW ADVERTISING v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 50 C 386.

112 F.Supp. 121 (1953)

JOHN W. SHAW ADVERTISING, Inc. v. FORD MOTOR CO. et al.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

May 8, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

Lord, Bissell & Kadyk, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.


CAMPBELL, District Judge.

This is an action to recover damages for an alleged use and copying of advertising ideas and material submitted by the plaintiff advertising agency to defendant Ford Motor Company. Plaintiff claims that the ideas and material were used and copied without authorization in an extensive advertising campaign by Ford and J. Walter Thompson Company, another agency.

It is alleged in the complaint that on or about November 12, 1945, plaintiff...

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