Cengage Learning, Inc. v. Book Dog Books, LLC
Summary
Cengage Learning is suing Book Dog Books and over a dozen related entities, including major textbook resellers Chegg and MBS Textbook Exchange, for copyright infringement. The defendants allegedly reproduced and sold unauthorized copies of Cengage's copyrighted textbooks without permission, undermining the publisher's control over its educational materials.
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Counsel of record
- Mandel Bhandari LLPAlyssa L Vickers, Robert Allen Glunt
- Mandel Bhandari, L.L.P.Evan Mandel
- Mandel Bhandari, LLPRishi Bhandari
- PRO SEBooks for Coco, LLC, Bookstores.com, LLC, Cal Text Books, Inc. +10 more
- Greenberg Traurig, LLPJustin Albano MacLean
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP (Los Angeles)Nina D. Boyajian
- Independent counselChegg, Inc.
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- Docket no.
- 1:16-cv-07123
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- William H. Pauley, III
- Filed
- 2016-09-12
- Last filing
- 2024-03-18
- Terminated
- 2018-08-17
Cause
17:101 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC Chegg, Inc. Robert William Management, LLC Apex Media, LLC Book Dog Books, LLC SRockPaper Imports, Inc. SPL Management, LLC RW Europe, Inc. Robert William Intermediate Holdings, LLC Robert William Intermediate Holdings Doppelganger, LLC Robert William Holdings, LLC Oliveford Limited Mandolin Imports, LLC K12 Book Services, Inc. (f/k/a/ K12 Book Source, Inc.) GEKR Holdings, LLC Cal Text Books, Inc. Bookstores.com, LLC Books for Coco, LLC Bookeagle.com, LLC Book Dog Books, LLC (FL)
Docket entries
- 2017-11-08
Telephone Conference
- 2017-10-20
Telephone Conference
- 2017-10-19
Set/Reset Hearings
- 2017-10-13
Discovery Hearing
- 2017-09-07
Discovery Hearing
- 2017-09-01
Notice Regarding Pro Hac Vice Motion
- 2017-08-21
Discovery Hearing
- 2017-08-03
Discovery Hearing
- 2017-07-28
Notice Regarding Deleted Document
- 2017-07-24
Set/Reset Hearings
- 2017-07-19
Notice to Attorney to Re-File Document - Event Type Error
- 2017-06-21
Notice Regarding Deficient Motion to Appear Pro Hac vice
- 2017-06-21
Notice Regarding Pro Hac Vice Motion
- 2017-06-15
Set/Reset Deadlines
- 2017-05-11
Discovery Hearing
- 2017-05-05
Discovery Hearing
- 2016-09-14
Case Designation
- 2016-09-14
Notice of Case Assignment/Reassignment
- 2016-09-14
Case Accepted as Related
- 2016-09-13
Case Referred as Possibly Related/Similar
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