South Bend, Indiana – Indiana trademark attorneys for Plaintiff Barrington Music Products, Inc. of Niles, Michigan filed a trademark infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of Indiana. The Defendants in the litigation are Guitar Center Stores, Inc. of Westlake Village, California; Music & Arts Centers of Bel Air, Maryland, which…
The U.S. Patent Office issued the following 201 patent registrations to persons and businesses in Indiana in December 2015, based on applications filed by Indiana patent attorneys: Patent No. Title 1 9225964 Figure-ground organization of 3-D scenes 2 9225338 System and method for removing far field limitations in microwave photonic…
Hammond, Indiana – Plaintiff Stanley Pagorek of Dyer, Indiana filed an intellectual property lawsuit in the Northern District of Indiana alleging that Vizio, Inc. of Irvine, California and Cognitive Media Networks, Inc. of San Francisco, California monitor, track and report viewing habits and information about devices attached to home networks…
Hammond, Indiana – Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. of Feasterville, Pennsylvania filed an intellectual property lawsuit in the Northern District of Indiana alleging unlawful interception of content protected under federal intellectual property laws. The Defendants are Whitney Chapman, individually and d/b/a Showtime Bar and Grill, and Showtime Bar & Grill…
South Bend, Indiana – Plaintiff Shower Enclosures America, Inc. of Ontario, California sued in the Northern District of Indiana alleging that BBC Distribution Corp. of Elkhart, Indiana infringed “Triple Slide Assembly for Sliding Doors,” U.S. Patent No. 7,174,944, which was issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. An Indiana…
Indianapolis, Indiana – Indiana copyright lawyers for Plaintiff Angela Ellsworth of Huntington, Indiana filed a copyright lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana alleging that Mission 22 a/k/a Elder Heart, Inc. of Nashville, Indiana infringed Ellsworth’s copyrighted artwork, Copyright Registration No. VA1-958-239, by creating at least one unauthorized derivative work.…
New Albany, Indiana – Plaintiff Joe Hand Promotions, Inc. of Feasterville, Pennsylvania filed an intellectual property lawsuit in the Southern District of Indiana. The Defendants are two individuals, Darlene Vicars and Leann Richardson, and an entity, The Wing Company, LLC. Each of the Defendants is alleged to do business as…
Changes to Delivery of E-mailed Notices of Electronic Filing (NEFs) Effective January 4, 2016, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana will implement important new changes in the delivery of e-mailed Notices of Electronic Filing (“NEFs”). The court’s CM/ECF system will begin generating NEFs for both…
The Lanham Act’s ban on registering disparaging marks violates the First Amendment of the Constitution held the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, on December 22, 2015. In re Tam, en banc Fed. Cir., No. 2014-1203, oral argument 12/22/2015. In a case involving the refusal to register the term “The Slants”…
Evansville, Indiana – District Judge Richard L. Young, writing for the Southern District of Indiana in the matter of Berry Plastics Corp. v. Intertape Polymer Corp., denied Berry’s motion in limine to prohibit Intertape from proffering testimony or evidence at trial which referred to reliance on counsel or good faith…