GREAT SOUTHERN HOMES v. JOHNSON & THOMPSON

No. 3:91-0870.

797 F.Supp. 609 (1992)

GREAT SOUTHERN HOMES, INC., and James A. Gleason, Plaintiffs, v. JOHNSON & THOMPSON REALTORS, Shirley Shuette, and William Smithson and Don Smithson, individually, and d/b/a the Smithson Company, and Don Bledsoe, individually, and d/b/a Bledsoe Builders, Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Nashville Division.

August 25, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven A. Cobb, Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, Tenn., Dennis James Meaker, Springfield, Tenn., for Great Southern Homes, Inc. and James A. Gleason.

John M. Tipps, John R. Jacobson, Bass, Berry & Sims, Julian Lee Bibb, Overton Thompson, III, Farris, Warfield & Kanaday, Nashville, Tenn., for Johnson & Thompson Realtors.

Julian Lee Bibb, Overton Thompson, III, Kemper Harlan Dodson, III, Dodson, Parker & Behm, Nashville, Tenn., for Shirley Schuette.

Donald S. Caulkins, Sr., Caulkins and Caulkins, Franklin, Tenn., for William Smithson, Don Smithson and Don Bledsoe.


MEMORANDUM

WISEMAN, District Judge.

I

This case involves the alleged copyright infringement of home plans. Plaintiff Great Southern Homes possessed an exclusive license to market home plans designed by Plaintiff James Gleason. Great Southern entered into an agreement with Osias Enterprises, Inc., (not a party to this suit) to build some of the Gleason homes in Greystone Estates in Williamson County...

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