Games Workshop vs Chapterhouse Document Dump

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Hundreds of pages dropped into the public record this week from the ongoing case.

Both sides submitted 25 page motions for summary judgement to the Illinois District court with their strongest arguments. The discovery proccess is over, and high ranking Games Workshop and Chapterhouse staff, as well as expert witnesses testimony is now on the public record.

Here's a brief guided tour:

[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.2.pdf"]Partial Index of Recent Exhibits[/URL]

[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.213.1.pdf"]Games Workshop Motion for Summary Judgement[/URL]
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.0.pdf"]Chapterhouse Motion for Summary Judgement[/URL]

Expert Witnesses Testimony
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.19.pdf"]- British Copyright Law Experts (supporting GW)[/URL] Exhibit 8
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.19.pdf"]- British Copyright Law Expert (Supporting CHS)[/URL] Exhibit 9
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.21.pdf"]- Military Symbology Expert (supporting CHS)[/URL] Exhibit 12-13

Staff Testimony
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.32.pdf"]Andrew Jones - GW Head of Legal, Licensing[/URL] Exhibit 15
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.34.pdf"]Alan Merrett - GW Head of IP[/URL] Exhibit 17-19
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.34.pdf"]Gillian Stevenson - GW Chief Counsel[/URL] Exhibit 22-23
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.208.35.pdf"]John Blanche - GW Art Director[/URL] Exhibit 27

[URL="http://archive.recapthelaw.org/ilnd/250791/"]Master Case Archives[/URL]
There are hundreds of pages of unlabeled supporting documents from both sides from document 204.0 on downward.

UPDATE 9-7-2012
Both sides have issused opposition documents to each other's requests for summary judgement and points of contention to each other's "Undisputed Facts" documents.

[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.230.0.pdf"]Games Workshop Opposition to CHS Motion for Summary Judgement[/URL]
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.229.0.pdf"]Chapterhouse Opposition to GW Motion for Summary Judgement[/URL]

[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.234.0.pdf"]Chapterhouse Opposition to GW Undisputed Facts Document[/URL]

UPDATE 10-25-2012
Pretrial documents are going up with proposed juror screening questions, and lists of expected witnesses to call.
[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.249.0.pdf"]Proposed Pre-trial Order[/URL]
Trial date is currently set for December 3rd.

UPDATE 2-13-2013
Latest wrinkle in the case is working its way out.

CHS presented emails Games Workshop failed to disclose to the court between GW and the US Copyright Office. In these email the CO rejected the copyrightability of shoulderpads. This email would have been pertinent to the court in making its own summary judgement decision on copyrightability in the case of certain GW product claims. In almost all cases, judges will defer to the US Copyright Office's decisions on copyright (that is their specialty after all).

[URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.275.1.pdf"]In this document [/URL]GW's attorney tells the US Copyright Office that he is more than happy to let the court make a copyrightability decision for them with some interesting choice of words...

There are now some [URL="http://www.archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791/gov.uscourts.ilnd.250791.272.0.pdf"]back and forth motions [/URL]from both sides around this issue based on whether the Copyright Office has "formally issued a rejection" of GW's shouldperpad claim.

The judge has not commented on whether the court will take this new evidence into account and possibly update or reverse their own summary judgement on the case so far.

The jury-trial date is currently set for April.

The case is onging.

Special Request: All the recent documents start at 204.0 and downwards. There are literally hundreds, upon hundreds of pages of testimony in here. If you find any gems or morsels, please throw them into the comments with a description of what document they are from. Lets crowd-source this thing!