Humanmade

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 HUMANMADE, Case No. 4:23-cv-02349-HSG

8 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING MOTION TO

DISMISS

9 v. Re: Dkt. No. 24 10 SFMADE, et al., 11 Defendants.

12 13 Pending before the Court is Defendant SFMade’s Motion to Dismiss (Dkt. No. 24) 14 Plaintiff Humanmade’s Complaint (Dkt. No. 1).1 Plaintiff opposes the Motion. Dkt. No. 27. The 15 Court finds that this matter is appropriate for disposition without oral argument. See N.D. Civ. 16 L.R. 7–1(b). For the reasons set forth below, the Court DENIES the Motion. 17 I. BACKGROUND 18 Plaintiff Humanmade is a non-profit that developed a “hard skills” manufacturing training 19 program called the Next Generation Manufacturing Training Program (“NGMT Program”). 20 Complaint ¶ 7. Plaintiff developed and authored the NGMT Program between 2018 and 2021, and 21 in 2021 applied for a copyright registration for the NGMT Program from the U.S. Copyright 22 Office. Id. ¶¶ 7–8. Plaintiff alleges that the NGMT Program includes…