On April 1, 2014, Select Management Resources, LLC of Alpharetta, Georgia (“Select”) filed a complaint against Title Credit Acceptance, LLC of Duluth, Georgia (“Title”) alleging state and federal trademark and trade dress infringement and dilution, wrongful business practices, unfair competition, and false advertising. According to the complaint, Select […]
Below is a survey of recent copyright cases filed in the Northern and Southern Districts of Georgia. Microsoft Windows On June 27, 2013, Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”), based in Washington, filed suit against VertexPC and its owner Peter Dapice (collectively “Defendants”), based in Buford, Georgia, alleging that the Defendants […]
Armed with purported copies of invoices showing a defendant purchasing a genuine carpet product at an earlier time, and selling an accused infringing product at a later time, with the later invoice bearing the name of the genuine design, a New York-based design house has brought copyright and […]
On January 10, 2013, Atlanta Beltline, Inc. (“Atlanta Beltline”), a Georgia non-profit corporation, filed a complaint in the Northern District of Georgia against Andrew Realty Group, Inc., a Georgia corporation based in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and Alan Andrew (collectively, “Andrew Realty”), alleging that Andrew Realty is using domain […]
(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, […]
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