AUTOMATION BY DESIGN, INC. v. RAYBESTOS PRODUCTS CO.

No. 05-1172.

463 F.3d 749 (2006)

AUTOMATION BY DESIGN, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. RAYBESTOS PRODUCTS COMPANY, Raytech Corporation and Production Design Services, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 15, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey Slaughter, Michelle K. Bray (argued), Sommer Barnard, Indianapolis, IN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Elizabeth M. Keiley (argued), Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon, Chicago, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CUDAHY, KANNE, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


ROVNER, Circuit Judge.

In this copyright infringement dispute, Automation by Design, Inc.(ABD) alleges that Raybestos Products Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytech Corp., (together "Raybestos" or "RPC") infringed on its copyright and breached their agreement when it hired Production Design Services, Inc. (PDSI) to build a duplicate machine of one that ABD had designed and built for Raybestos several years earlier. Because we find that Raybestos did not violate...

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