Savvysoft’s TurboExcel Copyright Claims Proceed Against User W&S

Western & Southern Financial Group Inc. will have to face copyright infringement claims over its use of TurboExcel software after a federal judge denied its bid to dismiss the case.

Judge Jeffery P. Hopkins said the Ohio-based financial services group’s arguments failed to prove its contention that all the claims brought by software maker Options Unlimited Research Corp., which does business as Savvysoft, were time-barred, insufficiently pleaded, or both, according to the Monday opinion filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.

Hopkins’ denial pointed to evidence he said was outside of his scope to review—and ...