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 […]
According to three consecutive suits filed on October 26, 2012 in the Atlanta Division of the Northern District, since 1998 Mark Rice d/b/a Games to Remember has been the purveyor of a board game for children 4 to 10 years old known as the FUNKY MONKEYS®, for which […]
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia has seen continued activity in the filings of trademark cases, adding to the considerable number of such cases filed in Georgia federal courts in September and covered in several blog entries, including our October 1 entry. Abstracted below are the October 2012 trademark […]
On October 3, 2012, Anvil International, LLC (“Anvil”) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Mueller Water Products, Inc. (“Mueller”) of Atlanta, Georgia, filed a complaint against Victaulic Company (“Victaulic”) of Easton, Pennsylvania, in the Northern District of Georgia seeking a declaration that the claims of Victaulic’s U.S. Patent No. […]
(Updated September 13) The Northern District of Georgia docket has seen a flurry of intellectual property-related activity in the last two weeks. Below is a summary of recent filings: Vehicle Tracking Patent Suits On September 6, 2012, Telematics Corporation (“Telematics”) filed a complaint against CarrierWeb, LLC (“CarrierWeb”) of Smyrna, […]
Recounting observations by a private investigator, including surveillance photos and a visit to a Michigan office protected by bulletproof glass, Sprint invokes the authority of U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia to help combat what Sprint calls “the global conspiracy to traffic in Sprint Phones.” […]
The overall similarity between patented and accused designs, a court ruled, is enough to let a jury decide whether design patent infringement occurred. On August 14, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Chief Judge Julie E. Carnes presiding, issued an order denying the defendant’s motion for […]
On July 27, 2012, Meg Adams Interior Design, Inc. of Atlanta (“Meg Adams Interiors”) and Lauren Rubinstein Photography LLC of Cumming (“Rubinstein Photography”) filed suit in the Northern District of Georgia against Kellie Griffin Interiors, Inc. of Atlanta (“Kellie Griffin Interiors”) and Kellie Griffin of Alpharetta. The suit […]
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