Charles Schwab & Company’s ad campaign exhorts viewers to Talk to Chuck® for financial advice. A plaintiff that sued Charles Schwab & Company in Georgia for patent infringement, however, will have to talk to Charles Schwab about its case elsewhere. Our August 23, 2012 post discussed three lawsuits filed […]
On December 21, 2012, plaintiff Brittni Pope filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia against Orion Restoration, LLC and related parties (collectively, “Orion”), seeking a declaratory judgment of copyright ownership in certain works and remedies for copyright infringement. Ms. Pope alleges […]
In a complaint filed in the Atlanta Division of the Northern District of Georgia on December 10, 2012, The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (“ARRT”) seeks to enjoin Antonine X. Brown (“Brown”) for trademark infringement and to recover damages. This lawsuit concerns a species of trademarks known as “certification […]
On December 10, 2012, Cumming-based Mattress Safe, Inc. filed a complaint against New Jersey-based Hospi-Tel Manufacturing Co. (“Hospi-Tel”) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, alleging trademark infringement and related causes of action. Mattress Safe is the named owner of record of the following […]
The title of Zac Brown Band’s album You Get What You Give, released in September 2010, may prove ironically prophetic if a new copyright lawsuit results in an award of sought remedies. The complaint, filed on November 30, 2012 by creative leatherworker Kyle Landas, alleges that Landas personally presented […]
VitalStim, LLC (VitalStim), ESD, LLC (ESD), DJO, LLC ((DJO), and Empi, Inc. (Empi) filed suit on December 3, 2012, against eSwallow USA, LLC (eSwallow) asserting infringement of four patents: U.S. Patent 5,725,564 (the ‘564 Patent), U.S. Patent 5,987,359 (the ‘359 Patent), U.S. Patent 6,104,958 (the ‘958 Patent), and […]
On November 30, 2012, Plaintiff Avion Pharmaceuticals, LLC (“Avion”), which claims to have an exclusive license to trademarks comprising the term PRENATE in whole or in part (“the PRENATE Marks”), filed suit for infringement against Lawrenceville, Georgia-based TherapeuticsMD, Inc. and Boca Raton, Florida-based BocaGreenMD, Inc. (stated to be […]
In a complaint filed in the Atlanta Division of the Northern District of Georgia on November 28, 2012, Clark Equipment Company d/b/a Bobcat Company (”Bobcat Company”) against Nighthawk Machinery, LLC (“Nighthawk”) seeks to recover from Nighthawk for infringement of its DURACORE trademark. For a history of the Clark […]
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 […]
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