23 Thursday Feb 2012
Posted in Copyright, District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon
Court Case Number: 3:12-cv-00312-HU
File Date: Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Plaintiff: Simon Tam, Aaron Moxley
Plaintiff Counsel: Anthony Edward McNamer of McNamer and Company, PC
Defendant: Namco Bandai Holdings (USA), Inc., Toei Animation Incorporated, Inc., Namco Bandai Games America, Inc.
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District Court of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Dennis J. Hubel
22 Wednesday Feb 2012
Posted in District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon, Trademark
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Janice M. Stewart, Klarquist Sparkman, Metal-Tech Cage, Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition
Court Case Number: 3:12-cv-00308-ST
File Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Plaintiff: Metal-Tech Cage, LLC
Plaintiff Counsel: Kevin M. Hayes of Klarquist Sparkman LLP
Defendant: Jason DeMello, DeMello Offroad
Cause: Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge Janice M. Stewart
18 Saturday Feb 2012
Posted in Copyright, District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon
Court Case Number: 6:12-cv-00291-HO
File Date: Friday, February 17, 2012
Plaintiff: CBT Nuggets, L.L.C.
Plaintiff Counsel: E. Bradley Litchfield of Hutchinson Cox Coons & DuPriest
Defendant: Tri Nguyen, Hue Nguyen, Hung Tran, John Cast, Mike Schewe, nicetodobusinesswithyou, examread, examworld@gmail.com, examgrand@gmail.com, HNT4585@gmail.com
Cause: Copyright Infringement
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: U.S. District Judge Michael R. Hogan
04 Saturday Feb 2012
Posted in District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon, Trademark
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Common Law Trademark Infringement, Crossfit, Federal Trademark Dilution, Michael H. Simon, Sportsgrants, Trademark Infringement, Williamson & Wyatt
Court Case Number: 3:12-cv-00196-SI
File Date: Friday, February 03, 2012
Plaintiff: Sportsgrants, Inc.
Plaintiff Counsel: Michael A. Cohen, Matthew R. Wilmot Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C.
Defendant: Crossfit, Inc., Does 1 through 10
Cause: Trademark Infringement, Common Law Trademark Infringement, Dilution
Court: District Court of Oregon
Judge: Judge Michael H. Simon
02 Monday Jan 2012
Stories from the Week that Was – 12/26/11-1/1/12
2011 was quite a year. We witnessed intellectual property trump civil liberties time and time again. I’ll continue to archive the most important stories from each week, although I’m no longer certain it’s best for my mental health. Onward and upward (hopefully).
Copyrights Are No Longer About Copies (Part 1): William Patry
Creativity Springs From Careful Copying (Part 2): William Patry
Artists: Can You Be Sued for Including a Real Person in Your Painting?
SOPA is the end of us, say bloggers
Company sues former employee over right to Twitter followers
Scottie Pippie Files Suit Claiming Websites Falsely Labeled Him as Bankrupt; Is Blog Tag Defamatory?
Google+ Censoring Borderline Offensive Profile Images; Author Images in Search Results To Blame?
20 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in Litigation, Oregon, Patent
An Oregon-based inventor has filed a complaint in a federal court in Illinois accusing PepsiCo of patent infringement by using his patented packaging designs in its Gatorade G Series pouches.
In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, plaintiff Benjamin Lewit alleges that PepsiCo’s Gatorade G pouches infringe his patent for a “Material contained and dispenser having a litterless closure” (full text below).
For more, see Food Navigator USA
15 Thursday Dec 2011
Posted in District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon
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False Advertising, John Jelderks, Oregon Aesthetic Tech, Ropes & Gray, Tria Beauty, Unfair Competition
Plaintiff, which manufactures and sells an FDA-approved phototherapy device for the treatment of acne, alleges that Defendant is selling a non-FDA approved phototherapy device for the treatment of acne in violation of various unfair competition and false advertising laws. While there are no trademark or copyright claims in this Complaint, many trademark or copyright cases do include unfair competition claims and so I thought this case could be instructive for readers of the Oregon IP blog. Stay tuned for updates.
Court Case Number: 3:11-cv-01510-JE
File Date: Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Plaintiff: Tria Beauty
Plaintiff Counsel: Thad A. Davis, Alexandra J. Roberts, Joshua V. Van Hoven, Peter M. Brody of Ropes & Gray LLP
Defendant: Oregon Aesthetic Technologies, Inc.
Cause: Unfair Competition, False Advertising
Court: District of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge John Jelderks
13 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon, Trademark
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Adidas, Counterfeiting, Federal Trademark Dilution, Inc., John V. Acosta, Perkins Coie, Shoe Express, State Trademark Dilution, Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition, Unfair Trade Practices
Plaintiff Adidas is suing Defendant for selling apparel that allegedly infringes upon the Three-Stripe Mark and 3-Bars logo.
Related case: Adidas v. Preschoolians
Court Case Number: 3:11-cv-01501-AC
File Date: Monday, December 12, 2011
Plaintiff: Adidas America, Inc, adidas AG
Plaintiff Counsel: Stephen M. Feldman of Perkins Coie, LLP
Defendant: Shoe Shoe Express, Inc., Luis A. Gonzalez
Cause: Trademark Infringement, Counterfeiting, Unfair Competition, Unfair Trade Practices, Federal Trademark Dilution, State Trademark Dilution
Court: District Court of Oregon
Judge: Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta
06 Tuesday Dec 2011
Posted in District of Oregon, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Oregon, Trademark
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Adidas, Ann L. Aiken, Deceptive Trade Practices, Federal Trademark Dilution, Injury to Business Reputation, Preschoolians Co., State Trademark Dilution, Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition, Unfair Trade Practices
Adidas has brought this lawsuit to prevent Preschoolians from manufacturing and selling shoes bearing confusingly similar two-, three-, and four-stripe imitations of Adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark.
Court Case Number: 3:11-cv-01459-AA
File Date: Monday, December 05, 2011
Plaintiff: Adidas America, Inc., Adidas, AG
Plaintiff Counsel: Stephen M. Feldman of Perkins Coie, LLP
Defendant: Preschoolians Company, Jeffrey Silverman
Cause: Trademark Infringement, Unfair Competition, Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices, Federal Trademark Dilution, State Trademark Dilution, Injury to Business Reputation
Court: District Court of Oregon
Judge: Chief Judge Ann L. Aiken
20 Sunday Nov 2011
Posted in Copyright, Intellectual Property, Legislation, Litigation, Privacy, Social Media
Stories from the Week that Was – 11/13-11/19/11
Press Russia on intellectual property: US lawmakers
Criminal Case Glut Impedes Civil Suits
Picking Brand Names in China Is a Business Itself
The Entrepreneurial Generation
The NLRB’s Obsession with Social Media Continues
Viacom so devastated by piracy that CEO gets $50 million raise
Woman decapitated after anti-crime blog, police say
Attorneys seek to auction Righthaven copyrights
Artists Sue CBS, CNET, for Promoting and Profiting from Piracy
SOPA and Protect IP: What Legal Nightmares Are Made of
Number of 90-plus people likely to quadruple by 2050
Are Digital Resale Markets Legal? Should They Be?
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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