36 results for 'cat:"Trademark" AND cat:"Discovery"'.
J. Conley denies the club's motion to exclude the expert opinion of Thomas Maronick, who has worked as a marketing expert for the Federal Trade Commission, in a lawsuit alleging that the strip club used the models' images without authorization to promote the club. The club argues that Maronick's report is based on flawed methodology because he did not use the promotional materials using the models' images to gauge consumers' perceptions on the images, but Maronick did in fact apply his professional experiences when designing the survey that included the promotional materials and pictures in question.
Court: USDC Western District of Wisconsin, Judge: Conley, Filed On: September 12, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv657, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: trademark, Experts, discovery
J. Cummings grants the plaintiff nutrition supplement company's motion for a partial stay of discovery in its Lanham Act case against a defendant nutrition supplement company, pending the resolution of its motion to dismiss the defendant company's procedural counterclaims. The court grants a stay on numerous interrogatories, the deposition of Jennifer Aniston, the celebrity who serves as the plaintiff company's "chief creative officer," and the deposition of Kurt Seidensticker, the plaintiff company's founder and CEO.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Cummings, Filed On: September 1, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv2265, NOS: Other Statutory Actions - Other Suits, Categories: Fraud, trademark, discovery
J. Hightower partially grants the manufacturer's motion to compel production of documents in a trademark infringement, unfair competition, false advertising and conversion action against the company. The manufacturer alleged that the company sold stolen goods. The company is ordered to produce bank records, financial statements and underlying documents used to prepare a profit spreadsheet. The company is also ordered to produce documents related to customer information. The company is not ordered to reproduce emails in their native format which have already been produced in a PDF file.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Hightower, Filed On: August 17, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1337, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: trademark, discovery, False Advertising
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J. Hernandez partially denies the digital experience company founder's motion to compel information about the computer consultant founder's use of certain disputed emails for the latter's claim that the former wrongfully took the computer consultant's customers. The work product doctrine protects the computer consultant founder's pre-litigation use of the disputed emails because he could not have anticipated that his use of those emails would be relevant to the lawsuit before the complaint was filed.
Court: USDC Oregon, Judge: Hernandez, Filed On: July 5, 2023, Case #: 3:21cv621, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: Evidence, trademark, discovery