12 results for 'cat:"Fraud" AND cat:"Trademark"'.
J. Ezra partially adopts a report and recommendations and enters judgment in favor of outdoor company YETI in a trademark suit with several other people and brands after YETI said that some its products that were intended for destruction instead ended up at unauthorized resellers across the country. The sale of products bearing YETI’s “famous and distinctive mark” misled consumers into believing they were buying authorized products.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Ezra, Filed On: March 21, 2024, Case #: 1:22cv1337, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: fraud, trademark
J. Stadtmueller denies Giannis Antetokounmpo's motion for a protective order in his lawsuit in part alleging that the mattress company made fraudulent representations about four mattresses he ordered delivered to Athens, Greece, and that the company used his name and likeness as a popular professional basketball player on its Instagram account without his consent. Antetokounmpo has provided no burdens or other circumstances that would prohibit depositions the company has requested from him and his partner regarding venue and jurisdiction, so the depositions will proceed, but they should be limited to two hours per deposition.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Wisconsin, Judge: Stadtmueller, Filed On: January 18, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv1389, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: fraud, trademark
J. Pulliam declines to dismiss a lawsuit, including counterclaims brought by defendants, in a dispute stemming from an alleged oral agreement by defendants to provide “consulting and collaboration” to advertising campaigns. Both parties asserted multiple claims against each other, including fraud, and there are too many genuine factual disputes to justify dismissing either side’s claims at this time.
Court: USDC Western District of Texas , Judge: Pulliam, Filed On: December 14, 2023, Case #: 5:23cv791, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: fraud, trademark
J. Dein allows a restaurant owner’s motion to dismiss amended counterclaims brought against it by owners of a newer restaurant with the same name who it is suing for use of its trademarks. The owners of the newer restaurant fail to provide the evidence necessary to back their counterclaims of fraud and abandonment.
Court: USDC Massachusetts, Judge: Dein, Filed On: December 13, 2023, Case #: 1:23cv10567, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: fraud, trademark
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J. Stark finds that the trademark trial and appeal board improperly canceled a registered trademark held by a steak and seafood restaurant because the board lacked authority to cancel a fraudulently obtained mark. Reversed.
Court: Federal Circuit, Judge: Stark, Filed On: October 18, 2023, Case #: 2022-1212, Categories: fraud, trademark
J. Browning grants Warner Bros.' motion for partial summary judgment, ruling the signature of supernatural investigator Lorraine Warren on a trademark assignment sheet, which may have been forged, is immaterial. She had already sold the rights to "Seekers of the Supernatural" and other marks to New Line several years before, which gave them total ownership over all name and image rights. Meanwhile, the undisputed evidence in the record indicates numerous customers were confused about the source of books and videos depicting the paranormal investigators and sold by the individual defendant, which is sufficient to prove trademark infringement and unfair competition.
Court: USDC New Mexico, Judge: Browning, Filed On: September 5, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv62, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: Evidence, fraud, trademark
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. Swain finds for the defendant company in a fraud suit stemming from its alleged misrepresentations regarding ownership of the "Wings" mark, used in the sale of beachwear, in an underlying trademark action. The record shows the company did not thwart any efforts by the plaintiff to contest ownership, but simply chose not to explore the issue.
Court: USDC Southern District of New York, Judge: Swain, Filed On: August 28, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv8459, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: fraud, trademark
J. Kennelly finds a nutrition company liable for violating the Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act by mimicking a entrepreneur’s separate nutrition supplement trademark, and orders the company to pay the entrepreneur over $547,000.
Court: USDC Northern District of Illinois, Judge: Kennelly, Filed On: August 25, 2023, Case #: 1:17cv2283, NOS: Other Fraud - Torts - Personal Property, Categories: fraud, trademark, Damages