Clark Equipment Company d/b/a Bobcat Company, based in West Fargo, North Dakota but stated to manage its trademark portfolio from its Atlanta corporate office (“Bobcat Company”), filed an anticybersquatting complaint in the Northern District of Georgia, asserting that Mr. Ted Corriher improperly registered domain names using Bobcat Company’s […]
Acceleron, LLC has filed another lawsuit asserting U.S. Patent 6,948,021 (“the ‘021 Patent”), now against defendant Dell, Inc., the second lawsuit filed on the ‘021 Patent in roughly the last 3 months. As previously mentioned in a September 5 post, Acceleron had sued Hitachi Data Systems Corporation in […]
Assertions of copyright infringement, breach of contract, and tortious conduct appear in a 30-page complaint filed by and against LLCs and individuals all based in the Atlanta metro area. On November 20, 2012, Brightharbour Consulting, LLC, 3Lins, LLC, Alden D. Kent, and Hsi-Ming Lin filed a complaint in the Atlanta […]
With one recent Northern District of Georgia action under its belt (see our October 31 and November 16 posts), 3form, Inc. (“3form”) has launched a nationwide campaign to enforce its design patents, utility patents, and trademark relating to architectural wall designs and products. On November 20, 2012, Utah-based 3form and Swiss-based Hunter Douglas […]
Our posts of September 6, September 24, and October 16 covered cases involving holdover licensees, all in the context of hotel franchises. The latest addition to the list of holdover licensee cases involves the restaurant business. In a complaint filed in the Atlanta Division of the Northern District […]
On November 15, 2012, Atlanta-based Pursen, LLC (“PurseN”), claiming exclusive rights to a purse organizer insert, sued QVC, Inc. and two Florida-based corporations (Great Innovations, Inc. and For Life Products, Inc.) for patent infringement, trade dress infringement, and related state law causes of action. PurseN is the owner […]
On November 16, 2012, Atlanta-based Tie Down, Inc. (“Tie Down”) filed a declaratory judgment action against Demco, Inc. (“Demco”), based in Des Moines, Iowa, asking the Court to declare that its trailer hitch and integrated actuator products do not infringe Demco’s U.S Patent No. 7,690,673 (the ‘673 patent), entitled […]
As reported in our October 31 post, 3Form, Inc. filed a complaint in the Northern District of Georgia against Meridien Accents, Inc. alleging design patent infringement over certain decorative architectural walls. On November 12, 2012, the parties filed a Stipulation for a Permanent Injunction indicating that they have […]
In our July 23 post, we covered the Eleventh Circuit’s denial of a petition for a rehearing filed by the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in which the Eleventh Circuit let stand its earlier rejection of the FTC’s challenge that a “pay for delay” agreement (also called a “reverse payment” agreement)[1] violated antitrust laws. In […]
On November 8th, 2012, Automated Facilities Management Corporation (AFMC), a Texas corporation, filed suit against Ventyx USA, Inc., a Georgia corporation with a principal place of business in Colorado, for the manufacture and sale of Ventyx’s “Ellipse” product, an asset management program which, according to the complaint, infringes […]
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