ACT, INC. v. WORLDWIDE INTERACTIVE NETWORK, INC.

Nos. 21-5889/5907/6155.

46 F.4th 489 (2022)

ACT, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WORLDWIDE INTERACTIVE NETWORK, INC.; Teresa Chasteen, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Lorin J. Lapidus , NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for Appellants. Laura L. Chapman , SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP, San Francisco, California, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Lorin J. Lapidus , NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, A. Mattison Bogan , NELSON MULLINS RILEY & SCARBOROUGH LLP, Columbia, South Carolina, W. Kyle Carpenter , WOOLF, McCLANE, BRIGHT, ALLEN & CARPENTER, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Laura L. Chapman , Yasamin Parsafar , SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP, San Francisco, California, Matthew G. Halgren , SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP, San Diego, California, for Appellee.

Before: WHITE, BUSH, and READLER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Before us are two appeals that arise from the same intellectual-property dispute. Relevant to both, the testing company ACT, Inc. ("ACT") asserts that its former-partner-turned-competitor, Worldwide Interactive Network, Inc. ("WIN"), infringed ACT's copyright in its "Skill Definitions." Skill Definitions...

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