Indianapolis, IN – Trademark lawyers for Royal Purple, LLC of Indianapolis, Indiana sued Liqui Moly GmbH of Ulm, Germany in the Southern District of Indiana alleging trademark infringement for selling purple automotive lubricants. At the center of this litigation is the right to use the color purple. Royal Purple claims…
Indianapolis, Ind. – Klipsch Group, Inc. (“Klipsch”) and Audio Products International Corp. (“API”), both of Indianapolis, Ind., have sued Monoprice, Inc. (“Monoprice”) of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. alleging patent infringement, trade dress infringement, unfair competition and copyright infringement. In an eight-count complaint, intellectual property attorneys for Klipsch and its subsidiary API…
Indianapolis, Ind. – Plaintiffs Cosco Management, Inc. (“Cosco”) and Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. (“Dorel”) of Columbus, Ind. along with Ameriwood Industries, Inc. (“Ameriwood”) of Wright City, Mo. filed a patent infringement suit alleging Wing Enterprises, Inc. (“Wing”) and Wing Enterprises, Inc. d/b/a Little Giant Ladders (“Little Giant”) of Springville, Utah…
Indianapolis, IN – The Indiana Court of Appeals has reversed the decision of the Marion Superior Court to deny injunctive relief to Clark Sales & Service, Inc. (“Clark”) of Indianapolis, Indiana in its suit against John D. Smith (“Smith”) and Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. (“Ferguson”) of Newport News, Virginia. In 1998,…
South Bend, IN – Biomet, Inc. of Warsaw, Indiana has filed a declaratory judgment suit against Bonutti Skeletal Innovations LLC of Frisco, Texas in the Northern District of Indiana, asking the court to enter a judgment of non-infringement and invalidity of fifteen Bonutti patents. Biomet is a privately held company…
Indianapolis, IN – Patent lawyers for Mid-West Metal Products Company, Inc. d/b/a Midwest Homes for Pets of Muncie, IN sued Yuntek International, Inc. of Hayward, CA seeking a declaratory judgment of noninfringement and intervening rights regarding Yuntek’s “Pet Tent,” Patent No. 6,715,446, issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.…
Indianapolis, IN – Intellectual property lawyers for DirecTV, LLC sued Roger York, Dianna York and D.L.Y., Inc. d/b/a Marty’s Pub of Converse, IN alleging the commercial use of satellite programming sold at the residential rate. This suit was brought under the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, 47 U.S.C. §521,…
Indianapolis, IN – The Southern District of Indiana ruled in favor of Plaintiff Patrick Collins, Inc. by denying the motion of pro se Defendant John Doe No. 7 to quash or modify Plaintiff’s subpoena. In a lawsuit originally styled “Patrick Collins, Inc. v. John Does 1 – 13,” Patrick Collins,…
Indianapolis, IN – Plaintiff Malibu Media, LLC of Los Angeles, CA has sued seventeen “John Does” for copyright infringement in separate complaints filed in both the Southern District of Indiana and the Northern District of Indiana. Paul Nicoletti, a copyright attorney, has filed seventeen nearly identical suits in Indiana federal…
Indiana patent attorneys obtained issuance of the following 160 patents from the US Patent Office to persons and businesses in Indiana in February, 2013: PAT. NO. Title 1 D676,952 Fan 2 D676,939 Faucet handle 3 D676,938 Faucet handle 4 D676,937 Faucet handle 5 D676,936 Faucet handle 6 D676,932 Faucet handle…