Ferrero v. Associated Materials Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that third parties are not permitted to sue on a copyright holder’s behalf
• allowing plaintiff to bring suit for copyright infringement that had occurred prior to plaintiff’s owning any copyright interest where plaintiff was assigned the right to accrued causes of action
• noting that an “assignee is only entitled to bring actions for infringements that were committed while it was the copyright owner and the assignor retains the right to bring actions accruing during its ownership of the right, even if the actions are brought subsequent to the assignment”
• third parties are not permitted to sue on a copyright holder’s behalf
• trial court’s credibility determinations entitled to “considerable deference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).