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DESIGN BASICS, LLC v. LEXINGTON HOMES, INC.

No. 16-3817.

858 F.3d 1093 (2017)

DESIGN BASICS, LLC, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LEXINGTON HOMES, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 6, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael T. Hopkins , Attorney, IP-Litigation. US, LLC, Milwaukee, WI, Paul E. Harold , Stephen M. Judge , John D. LaDue , Attorneys, LaDue, Curran & Kuehn LLC, South Bend, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Frank W. Kowalkowski , Attorney, Von Briesen & Roper, S.C., Green Bay, WI, Christopher D. Wolske , Attorney, Menn Law Firm, Appleton, WI, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before Wood, Chief Judge, and Flaum and Hamilton, Circuit Judges.

This copyright suit shows the difficulty in finding protected creative expression in a crowded field, in this case, architectural design of single-family homes. The case also shows the challenge in administering intellectual property law to discourage so-called intellectual property "trolls" while protecting genuine creativity...

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