| Case | Case Filed | Last Document |
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| Apple Computer, Inc. v. Podfitness, Inc. | September 21, 2006 | May 9, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Apple Computer, Inc. alleged that defendant Podfitness, Inc.uses trade names and marks (PODFITNESS.COM and PODFITNESS) that are highly similar to and confusingly similar to Apple's famous trademarks (IPOD), and that defendant intentionally sought to imply an association with Apple in its marketing and advertising. |
| Allen v. American Apparel, Inc. | March 31, 2008 | May 8, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Woody Allen alleged that Defendant American Apparel, Inc. used Plaintiff's image and likeness for advertising purposes without permission or consent. |
| STELOR PRODUCTIONS, INC. v. OOGLES N GOOGLES et al | March 11, 2005 | May 8, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Stelor Productions Inc. alleged that defendant Oogles N Googles infringed on plaintiff's registered trademarks to OOGLES, OOGLE, IGGLE and OOGGLE. |
| Terraserver.com, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, a Washington corporation et al | May 2, 2008 | May 2, 2008 |
| Amiga Inc v. Hyperion VOF | April 26, 2007 | April 29, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Amiga Inc. alleges that it entered into an (OEM) License and Software Development Agreement with defendant Hyperion VOF for the development of Amiga's next generation operating system software, Amiga OS 4. Plaintiff further alleges defendant breached the agreement by marketing OS 4 outside the scope of the license, granting third parties the right to distribute OS 4 and use Amiga trademarks, refusing to turn over the source code and object code for OS 4, and failing to deliver OS 4 within the timeline specified in the contract. |
| Burck v. Mars, Incorporated et al | February 11, 2008 | April 28, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Robert Burck d/b/a The Naked Cowboy alleges that Defendants Mars, Inc. and Chute Gerdeman, Inc. infringed his trademark in his get-up, featuring a white cowboy hat, white boots, white underpants and an acoustic guitar. |
| Gibson Guitar Corporation v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. et al | March 17, 2008 | April 22, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Gibson Guitar Corporation alleges that Defendants Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corporation, Kmart Corporation, Amazon.com Inc., GameStope Corporation and Toys-R-Us Inc. infringed on U.S. Patent No. 5,990,405 entitled "System and Method for Generating and Controlling a Simulated Musical Concert Experience" by selling Guitar Hero series of video games. |
| American Airlines Inc v. Google Inc | August 16, 2007 | April 21, 2008 |
| American Airlines is suing Google for allowing companies to show ads when its trademarks, including (but not limited to) "AMERICAN AIRLINES" "AMERICAN EAGLE" "AA" "A A" "AA.COM" "AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER" "AADVANTAGE" "AMERICAN CONNECTION" "AMERICANAIRLINES" are searched on. |
| Silvers v. Google, Inc. | May 4, 2005 | April 18, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Steven A. Silvers alleged that defendant Google, Inc. infringed on plaintiff's GOOGLES mark, and sought to enjoin Google from using the GOOGLE mark in connection with the advertising, promoting, marketing and sale of children's goods and services. |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Dauben Inc | January 22, 2008 | April 10, 2008 |
| Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleges that Defendant Dauben, Inc. d/b/a Texas International Property Associates infringed on Microsoft's trade and service marks by registering Internet domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Microsoft's trademarks and service marks. |
| FreecycleSunnyvale v. The Freecycle Network | January 18, 2006 | March 25, 2008 |
| International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium v. Degraphenreed et al | November 16, 2007 | March 19, 2008 |
| Plaintiff International Information Systems Security Certifications Consortium sued Defendants Miko Degraphenreed, Degrapheinread Information Systems Security Corporation, Google, Incorporated and Yahoo!, Incorporated for trademark infringement, unfair competition, false designation of origin, dilution, and deceptive trade practice, misappropriation and unjust enrichment. Plaintiff alleges that Defendants infringed and violated (ISC2)'s rights to its long-standing and valuable registered mark CISSP®. |
| BidZirk LLC et al v. Smith | January 10, 2006 | November 15, 2007 |
| Plaintiff BidZirk, LLC, Daniel G. Schmidt, III, and Jill Patterson sued Defendant Philip Russ Smith over a review of BidZirk's auction services that Defendant had posted on his blog at www.jackwhispers.blogspot.com. |
| Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation v. YouTube, Inc. | October 30, 2006 | November 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation operates a website at utube.com. Plaintiff alleges that as a result of confusion in the minds of consumers, the spillover of nuisance traffic to plaintiff's website has destroyed the value of plaintiff's trademark and internet property, repeatedly caused the shut down of plaintiff's website, increased plaintiff's internet costs and damaged the plaintiff's good reputation. |
| Microsoft Corporation v. Kovyrin et al | September 10, 2007 | November 7, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleges that defendants have registered numerous Internet domain names that contain or consist of Microsoft's marks and/or intentional misspellings of Microsoft's marks. |
| Whitney Information, et al v. Xcentric Ventures, et al | January 27, 2004 | November 6, 2007 |
| Plaintiffs Whitney Information Network, Inc. and Russ Whitney alleged that defendants Xcentric Ventures, LLC, badbusinessbureau.org, and Ed Magedson (1) used plaintiffs' trademarks in commerce in a manner likely to cause consumer confusion and (2) published stories that are false about the plaintiffs with the intent to injure plaintiffs, their business reputation, and to illegally divert customers away from plaintiffs. |
| Lulu Enterprises, Inc. v. N-F Newsite, LLC et al | September 5, 2007 | October 24, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Lulu Enterprises, Inc. complains that defendants' HULU mark and domain name unfairly trade upon the goodwill that Lulu has established in its LULU name and marks. |
| Bell Helicopter Textron Inc et al v. Electronic Arts Inc | December 1, 2006 | October 11, 2007 |
| Plaintiffs Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., Textron Innovations Inc. and Textron Inc. alleged that defendant Electronic Arts, Inc. engaged in trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, dilution, unfair competition and misappropriation by manufacturing software and video games (including Battlefield Vietnam, Battlefield Vietnam: Redux, and Battlefield 2) that prominently feature, utilize and depict plaintiffs' trademarks, and trade dress without plaintiffs' permission or approval. |
| Mattel, Inc. v. Global China Networks, LLC. et al | August 21, 2007 | October 10, 2007 |
| Defendants operate a pornographic web site at www.chinabarbie.com. Plaintiff owns the BARBIE trademark and alleges that chinabarbie infringes and is confusingly similar and dilutive of the BARBIE trademark. |
| JTH Tax, Inc. v. Whitaker | April 12, 2007 | October 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff JTH Tax, Inc. alleges that the defendant breached a franchise agreement by failing to follow operating procedures, refused to allow the franchisor to inspect the business and refused to follow certain post-termination obligations. |
| S & L Vitamins, Inc. v. Australian Gold, Inc. | March 4, 2005 | October 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff S & L Vitamins, Inc. seeks a declaratory judgment of non-infringement of trademark rights and non-interference with contract and for unfair competition. Plaintiff sells tanning products on its website SuppleNet.com that are manufactured by defendant Australian Gold, Inc. |
| HANESBRANDS, INC. et al v. AMERICAN APPAREL, INC. et al | September 4, 2007 | October 3, 2007 |
| Plaintiffs Hanesbrands, Inc., HBI Branded Apparel Enterprises, LLC and HBI Branded Apparel Limited, Inc. alleged that defendants American Apparel, Inc. and American Apparel Retail, Inc. infringed on the BARELY THERE marks used by plaintiff on women's hosiery, lingerie and apparel products. |
| Alfenas v. Pantera Partnership et al | August 2, 2007 | October 2, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Leif Alfenas alleges that defendant Pantera Partnership acquiesced to his publication of a non-commercial fan appreciation website at Pantera.com and that defendant had abandoned its rights to the trademark PANTERA. |
| Video Professor, Inc. v. John Does 1-100 | August 16, 2007 | September 28, 2007 |
| Riches v. Underwood | September 14, 2007 | September 27, 2007 |
| Harajuku Lovers LLC v. Forever 21 Inc et al | June 14, 2007 | September 24, 2007 |
| Ritchie v. Gano | August 15, 2007 | September 20, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Brian Ritchie d/b/a Violent Femmes seeks a declaratory judgment that plaintiff is a joint-author of the certain Violent Femmes musical compositions and recordings, and is the sole and exclusive owner of the VIOLENT FEMMES trademark. |
| Omega, S.A. et al v. Susan Eisen, Inc. | August 1, 2007 | September 18, 2007 |
| St. Louis Cardinals, LLC v. Lewis | March 9, 2007 | September 18, 2007 |
| Plaintiff St. Louis Cardinals, LLC complains that defendant Douglas J. Lewis d/b/a STL Products operates a retail business that sells and offers for sale a wide variety of merchandise bearing trademarks, designations, logos and designs identical and/or confusingly similar to plaintiff's CARDINALS marks. |
| Video Professor, Inc. v. McGrath | July 13, 2007 | September 13, 2007 |
| Paris Hilton v. Hallmark Cards et al | September 6, 2007 | September 12, 2007 |
| CKE Restaurants Inc et al v. Jack in the Box Inc | May 25, 2007 | September 12, 2007 |
| Carl's Jr. sued Jack in the Box over TV ads that Jack in the Box ran that suggested Angus beef came from the butt of a cow. |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences v. Associazione Italiana Sommelier Roma et al | November 4, 2005 | September 11, 2007 |
| CNG Financial Corporation v. Google Inc | January 24, 2006 | September 7, 2007 |
| Plaintiff CNG Financial Corporation sued Defendant Google, Inc. over Google's practice of allowing third parties to purchase online advertisements that appear when a user searches for "Check 'N Go" on Google's website. Plaintiff owns the service mark "Check 'N Go." |
| Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences v. Ampas.com | April 13, 2007 | September 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences seeks an order transferring the domain name ampas.com to the plaintiff or deleting the registration of the domain name ampas.com |
| Google Inc. v. American Blind & Wallpaper Factory, Inc. | November 26, 2003 | September 5, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Google Inc. seeks declaratory judgment that its policy regarding the sale of keyword-triggering advertising does not constitute trademark infringement. |
| Powerful Katinka, Inc. v. McFarland et al | June 26, 2007 | August 29, 2007 |
| Chef Rebecca Charles of the Pearl Oyster Bar alleges that her former employee Chef Edward McFarland opened Ed's Lobster Bar, a restaurant that pirated Pearl's entire menu, copied all aspects of Pearl's presentation of its dishes and duplicated Pearl's readily identifiable decor. |
| Levi Strauss & Co v. Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation | July 12, 2007 | August 28, 2007 |
| L. F. P. Inc et al v. Cafepress.com, Inc et al | July 6, 2007 | August 21, 2007 |
| Pantera Partnership v. Alfenas | August 3, 2007 | August 3, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Pantera Partnership alleged that defendant Leif Alfenas operated, maintained and registered the pantera.com website with plaintiff's consent as an independent contractor. Plaintiff further alleged that it subsequently determined that it was in its best interest to regain control of its official website and demanded that defendant deliver pantera.com to plaintiff. |
| The Freecycle Network, Inc. v. Oey et al | April 4, 2006 | July 10, 2007 |
| Plaintiff The Freecycle Network, Inc. alleges that defendants Tim Oey and Jane Doe Oey have been knowingly inducing third parties to infringe The Freecycle Networks's marks by encouraging others to use the term freecycle as a generic term. |
| Google Inc. v. Wolfe | April 8, 2005 | July 9, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Google, Inc. alleges that defendant Richard Wolfe infringed on its trademark by registering the domain name froogles.com and hosting a internet shopping guide at that site, which competes with Google's web search services. |
| JTH Tax, Inc. v. Van | March 28, 2007 | July 5, 2007 |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences v. Sasha Stone et al | May 1, 2007 | June 13, 2007 |
| DELTA SIGMA THETA SORORITY, INC. v. DEREK & JAMAR PRODUCTION, LLC | November 21, 2006 | June 13, 2007 |
| CafePress.com Inc v. Alexa Internet Inc et al | April 16, 2007 | June 8, 2007 |
| Video Professor, Inc. v. Malaker | April 4, 2007 | June 7, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Video Professor, Inc. alleged that defendant registered videoprofessor.ca, which is confusingly similar to the VIDEO PROFESSOR trademark. |
| Site Pro-1, Inc. v. Better Metal, LLC | December 6, 2006 | May 14, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Site Pro-1, Inc. alleges that Defendant Better Metal, LLC placed SitePro1's SITE PRO 1 trademark in the metadata and/or meta tags of its www.bettermetal.com web site and/or improperly included SitePro1's SITE PRO 1 trademark in a search engine algorithm utilized by the Yahoo! search engine. |
| Helio LLC v. Palm, Inc. | December 19, 2006 | April 24, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Helio LLC alleged that Defendant Palm, Inc. use the slogan "Not Just a Cell Phone" that is confusingly similar to Plaintiff's "Don't Call It a Phone" trademark, slogan and brand. |
| Connor Sport Court International, Inc. v. Rhino Sports, Inc., et al | December 21, 2006 | April 18, 2007 |
| MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION v. S.F. ADVISORS, LLC et al | November 28, 2006 | March 19, 2007 |
| Rescuecom Corporation v. Google, Inc. | September 7, 2004 | February 13, 2007 |
| Plaintiff Rescuecom Corporation alleges that defendant Google, Inc. improperly infringes on plaintiff's name and trademark by selling the trademark to plaintiff's competitors as a keyword in defendant's search results. |
| Zazzle.com, Inc. v. Abbie Road Imprinting, LLC | December 5, 2006 | January 25, 2007 |
| Hawaii-Pacific Apparel Group, Inc. v. Cleveland Browns Football Company, LLC et al | October 4, 2004 | December 27, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Hawaii-Pacific Apparel Group, Inc. alleged that defendants Cleveland Browns Football Company LLC and National Football League Properties, Inc. infringed on plaintiff's trademarks LIL DAWG POUND and DAWG Pound. |
| Allball Athletics, LLC v. NBA Properties, Inc. et al | November 28, 2005 | September 18, 2006 |
| CollegeNET, Inc. v. A.C.N., Inc. | May 8, 2006 | September 1, 2006 |
| Jews for Jesus v. Google, Inc. | December 21, 2005 | July 27, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Jews for Jesus sued defendant Google, Inc. for creating a jewsforjesus third-level sub-domain within its blogspot.com domain. Plaintiff alleges the the Google-hosted Jews for Jesus blog authored by an anonymous third-party violated plaintiff's rights to the Jews for Jesus trademark. |
| SS&C Technologies, Inc. v. Reuters America L.L.C. et al | January 10, 2006 | July 26, 2006 |
| AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY v. GOOGLE, INC. | December 9, 2004 | July 5, 2006 |
| Plaintiff American Chemical Society alleges that defendant Google, Inc.'s a new research tool directed to scientists under the trademark SCHOLAR infringes on plaintiff's federally registered trademark SCIFINDER SCHOLAR and its common-law SCHOLAR mark. |
| Texas A&M University v. Seattle Seahawks Inc et al | February 2, 2006 | May 8, 2006 |
| Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences v. Props for Today, Inc. et al | February 27, 2006 | April 27, 2006 |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Valueclick, Inc. | November 22, 2005 | March 24, 2006 |
| NEW YORK FOOTBALL GIANTS, INC. et al v. CLEAR CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS, INC. | November 15, 2005 | March 23, 2006 |
| Marcel Fashion Group v. Cafepress.Com, Inc. | January 17, 2006 | March 14, 2006 |
| Blake A. Field VS Google, Inc., | April 6, 2004 | February 22, 2006 |
| Plaintiff Blake A. Field sued defendant Google, Inc. for copyright infringement. Plaintiff posted his copyrighted works on his website and completed an online form to request that Google index his website. Plaintiff now asserts that allowing users to view Google's cache of his copyrighted works infringes on his copyrights. |
| Government Employees, et al v. Google, Inc., et al | May 4, 2004 | August 8, 2005 |
| Plaintiff GEICO sued defendant Google, Inc. claiming that defendant violated the Lanham Act and engaged in unfair competition by using GEICO's trademarks to sell advertising on its Internet search engine. |
| Phenomenon Licensing v. MySpace Inc. | March 20, 2008 | |
| eBay Inc. v. Telebay LLC | March 14, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff eBay Inc. alleges that Defendant's Telebay Mark is highly similar to the registered eBay Marks in appearance, sound, meaning and commercial impression. |
| University of Tennessee v. Action Sports Media, Inc et al | February 12, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff University of Tennessee sued Defendants Action Sports Media, Inc., Unified Armies of America, Inc., Gordon Whitener, Jerry Felix, and David Jamison, collectively d/b/a "Big Orange Army" for using the university's marks and the Big Orange Army marks in connection with the promotion of the University's athletic teams. |
| AT&T Mobility LLC et al v. Wireless Exclusive USA LLC et al | February 5, 2008 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated et al v. New Dream Network, LLC et al | January 28, 2008 | |
| BlueAir Inc. v. Apple, Inc. | January 18, 2008 | |
| Plaintiff BlueAir Inc. seeks a declaratory judgment that its AIRPOD mark for desktop air purifiers does not infringe Apple's rights in its registered trademarks iPOD for portable personal music players. |
| TracFone Wireless Inc et al v. Shazia & Noushad Corporation et al | January 15, 2008 | |
| 1-800 Contacts v. Lensworld.com | January 8, 2008 | |
| 1-800 Contacts v. Premier Holdings et al | December 6, 2007 | |
| RealNetworks Inc v. QSA ToolWorks LLC | December 6, 2007 | |
| Plaintiff RealNetworks, Inc. seeks a declaratory judgment that Defendant QSA Toolworks, LLC has no rights to the TCM HELIX marks, that any rights QSA has in the HELIX marks are junior to RealNetworks' rights in the HELIX marks, QSA is bound by the terms of the Consent Agreement as an assign and/or successor of TCM, and there is no likelihood of confusion with respect to each parties' use of HELIX for their respective goods and services. |
| Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. v. Carter's Inc. et al | November 9, 2007 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Inc. et al v. Payman Simoni et al | October 26, 2007 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated v. Leonard Fitness, Incorporated et al | October 19, 2007 | |
| Vallavista Corporation v. Amazon.Com, Inc. et al | October 19, 2007 | |
| Plaintiff Vallavista Corporation alleges that Defendants Amazon.com, Inc., Target Corporation, eBags, INc. Emporium Leather Company, Inc., Royce Leather and Fashion Handbags, Inc. d/b/a Bo Bo Bags infringed on U.S. Trademark Registration No. 2,008,495 for TAXI WALLET®. |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated et al v. Bowler | October 12, 2007 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated et al v. Kotler et al | October 12, 2007 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated et al v. Maryland Plastic Surgery Associates, LLC et al | October 12, 2007 | |
| Shady Ladies, LLC v. GGW Marketing, LLC et al | September 18, 2007 | |
| 1-800 Contacts v. Lens.com Inc. et al | August 13, 2007 | |
| Plaintiff 1-800 Contacts, Inc. alleges that Defendant Lens.com, Inc. d/b/a Lens.com, JustLens.com and JustLenses.com had purchased sponsored advertisements from Google and other search engines for Plaintiff's marks. |
| Boston Duck Tours v. Super Duck Tours, LLC | July 3, 2007 | |
| 1-800 Contacts Inc v. Manila Industries Inc et al | January 26, 2007 | |
| Lions Gate Entertainment Inc v. Zazzle.Com | December 14, 2006 | |
| Lions Gate Entertainment Inc v. CafePress.com Inc | December 13, 2006 | |
| DC Comics v. Fed Promotion Company | November 22, 2006 | |
| Tokidoki LLC v. Forever 21 Retail Inc | November 16, 2006 | |
| RMC Publications, Inc. v. CNET Networks, Inc | November 13, 2006 | |
| JTH Tax Inc. v. Bonaventura | September 29, 2006 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated et al v. Cozmedic Surgery Associates, L. L. C. et al | June 30, 2006 | |
| Revah Holdings Inc v. Forever 21 Inc | January 5, 2006 | |
| Fehoko v. Electronic Arts, Inc | August 18, 2005 | |
| JTH Tax, Inc. v. Google, Inc., et al | April 4, 2005 | |
| Testmasters Trademark Litigation | December 16, 2004 | |
| 1800 Contacts v. Coastal Contacts | March 18, 2004 | |
| American Blind and Wallpaper Factory, Inc. v. Google, Inc. et al | January 27, 2004 | |
| Adidas America, Inc et al v. Payless Shoesource, Inc. | November 8, 2001 | |
| Re/Max International v. Google Inc., et al | July 27, 2001 | |
| Xtraplus Corporation v. Google, Inc. | May 18, 2001 | |
| Xtraplus Corporation v. Google Inc | May 15, 2001 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated v. Lift Site | December 19, 2007 | |
| Lifestyle Lift Holding, Incorporated v. Real Self, Incorporated | January 7, 2008 | |
