Indiana Intellectual Property Law News
Indianapolis, Indiana – Indiana trademark attorneys for Plaintiff Indy Founders LLC d/b/a Verge of Indianapolis, Indiana filed a trademark infringement lawsuit with the court in the Southern District of Indiana. The lawsuit alleges that Vox Media, Inc. and The Verge Group LLC (“TVG”) infringed the VERGE trademark, Registration No. 4,153,192, which has been registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Indy Founders is in the business of creating and offering online publications and websites, as well as similar services, for startup technology entrepreneurs, investors, and collaborators. It states that it holds a federal registration on VERGE as a trademark and that the VERGE trademark has been used since at least as early as January 2011.
Defendant Vox Media is a partner and owner of Defendant TVG. Plaintiff asserts that Defendants are engaged in a business similar to Plaintiff’s and that Defendants use the VERGE trademark in connection with their business, THE VERGE, and in their business’ domain name, http://www.theverge.com/. Plaintiffs contend that Defendants’ use of THE VERGE to identify their goods and services is unlawful.
In this Indiana trademark lawsuit, filed with the court by trademark lawyers for Plaintiff, the following claims are made:
• Count I: Trademark Infringement
• Count II: False Designation Of Origin
• Count III: Unfair Competition
• Count IV: Declaratory Judgment
• Count V: Indiana Crime Victims Act [Forgery under IC §35-43-5-2]
• Count VI: Preliminary and Permanent Injunctive Relief• Count VII: Corrective Advertising
Indy Founders seeks a declaratory judgment, equitable relief, actual damages, treble damages, costs and attorneys’ fees.
This case was assigned to Judge William T. Lawrence and Magistrate Judge Tim A. Baker, in the Southern District of Indiana and assigned Case No. 1:16-cv-0265-WTL-TAB.