update: temporary restraining order | OCLC Lawsuit Against Clarivate Analytics | June 27, 2022 | LJ infoDOCKET

"LAST UPDATE June 27, 2022 (12:15 PM Eastern): At the bottom of this post (and here) we have added (Update 5) a link to the full text of a temporary restraining order requested by the plaintiff (OCLC) and granted by Judge Howell earlier today. —END UPDATE– Direct to Complete Case Docket The lawsuit was filed by OCLC earlier this week in U.S. Federal Court, Southern District of Ohio. The complaint (32 pages; PDF) is available here. The complete court docket with additional items is also available and is updated as new documents become available. We have asked OCLC and Clarivate for comment. If/when available we will update this post. We will also update with links to key documents as well as links to media coverage. ... OCLC, Inc., (“OCLC”), by and through counsel, files this Complaint for a temporary restraining order, injunctive relief, and damages against Clarivate, Plc, Clarivate Analytics (US) LLC, ProQuest LLC, and Ex Libris (USA), Inc., (“Defendants”) [Clip] 8. In March 2022, OCLC became aware that Defendants are working on a platform called MetaDoor, which Defendants have publicly acknowledged will directly compete with  OCLC’s WorldCat®. Instead of devoting the time and other substantial resources that OCLC has invested to create its industry-leading WorldCat®, Defendants have chosen to take shortcuts by using the MetaDoor platform to misappropriate catalog records and metadata created by OCLC, its members, and others. 9. Defendants have been contacting OCLC customers and encouraging them to contribute the bibliographic records from WorldCat®, and provide access to those records from the MetaDoor platform, all of which is in direct breach of those customers’ contractual obligations to OCLC. In addition to tortiously interfering with OCLC’s contractual relationships with its customers, Defendants are also tortiously interfering with OCLC’s prospective business relationships by providing OCLC’s WorldCat® records to MetaDoor users without requiring those users to subscribe to use WorldCat® or otherwise pay OCLC for those records..."