"Unfair Competition" tagged Cases and Lawsuits

CaseCase FiledLast Document
Luxpro Corporation v. Apple, Inc.October 14, 2008November 19, 2009
Plaintiff Luxpro Corporation alleged that Defendant Apple, Inc. engaged in a scheme to interfere with Plaintiff's existing and prospective business relations and monopolize the worldwide MP3 market. Specifically, Plaintiff alleged that Defendant pressured Plaintiff's business partners and published false statements concerning Plaintiff's products and business.
Oracle Corporation et al v. SAP AG et alMarch 22, 2007November 18, 2009
Oracle has sued SAP for stealing its intellectual property. Among the claims made against SAP are violations of the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, unfair competition, intentional and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage and civil conspiracy.
The Facebook, Inc. v. Connectu, LLC et alMarch 9, 2007October 19, 2009
Plaintiffs Facebook, Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg alleges that Defendants ConnectU, Inc., Cameron WInklevoss, Tyler Vinklevoss, Divya Narendra, Pacific Northwest Software, Inc., Winston Wiliams, Wayne Change and David Gucwa circumvented the Terms of Use for the Facebook website by illicitly employing the user IDs and passwords of friends to mask Defendants' real identities, accessed the Facebook website to steal information and data for commercial purposes, and advertised to and solicited members to join www.connectu.com.
Soilworks LLC v Midwest Industrial Supply IncSeptember 7, 2006April 16, 2009
Plaintiff Soilworks, LLC alleged that Defendant Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc. violated the Lanham Act, the Arizona Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Arizona common law by disparaging Plaintiff and its products and falsely representing that Plaintiff is infringing patent rights of Defendant.
Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc. v. Soilworks, LLCJune 6, 2008April 10, 2009
Plaintiff Midwest Industrial Supply, Inc. alleged that Defendant Soilworks, LLC infringed its trademark, violated the Lanham Act and engaged in unfair competition.
Trafficschool.com.Inc v. Drivers Ed Direct LLCNovember 28, 2006March 9, 2009
Plaintiff TrafficSchool.com, Inc. and Drivers Ed Direct, LLC alleged that Defendants eDriver, Inc., Online Guru, Inc., Find My Specialist, Inc., Seriousnet, Inc., Ravi K. Lahoti and Raj Lahoti engaged in unfair competition and false advertising under the Lanham Act and the California Business and Professions Code by portraying themselves as an official government motor vehicles agency and then explicitly recommending particular traffic schools or driver's education course providers.
Jones Day v. BlockShopper.com et alAugust 12, 2008February 24, 2009
Plaintiff Jones Day alleged that Defendants BlockShopper.com, Brian Timpone and Edward Weinhaus used Jones Day marks, links to the Jones Day web site and used proprietary information from the Jones Day web site to create the false impression that Jones Day is affiliated and/or approved, sponsored or endorsed the business conducted by the Defendants.
Apple Corps Limited et al v. Fuego Entertainment, Inc. et alMarch 21, 2008July 9, 2008
Plaintiff Apple Corps Limited and Apple Records, Inc. alleges that defendants have attempted to release unauthorized bootleg recordings of musical performances of The Beatles from Hamburg Germany's Star-Club in 1962.
Apple Inc. v. Atico International USA Inc. et alMay 14, 2008May 15, 2008
Plaintiff Apple Inc. alleged that Defendants Atico International USA Inc. and New Atico International Limited Corporation manufactured and sold iPod accessories which were not licensed or otherwise sponsored by Apple. Defendants also allegedly infringed U.S. Patent No. 7,305,506 entitled "Method and System for Transferring Status Information Between a Media Player and an Accessory," Nos. D551,212, D551,213, and D552,085 entitled "Dock Insert," and No. D558,738 entitled "Docking Station."
The Associated Press v. All Headline News Corp. et alJanuary 14, 2008January 15, 2008
Plaintiff The Associated Press alleged that Defendants All Headline News Corp., AHN Media Corp., W. Jeffrey Brown and Danielle George hired writers to copy and rewrite AP news stories.
Romantics et al v. Activision Publishing, Incorporated et alNovember 20, 2007November 21, 2007
Plaintiffs The Romantics a/k/a Master Beat, Inc., Wally Palmar, Mike Skill and Coz Canler allege that Defendants Activision Publishing, Inc., Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., RedOctane, Inc. and WaveGroup Sound have violated Plaintiffs' rights by imitating Plaintiffs' identity, persona, and distinctive sound in order to sell their video game "Guitar hero Encore, Rocks the 80's" without permission from or compensation to Plaintiffs.
Google Inc v. Central Mfg. Inc. et alJanuary 19, 2007August 13, 2007
Plaintiff Google Inc. alleges that Defendants have falsely represented that they own a federal registration for the GOOGLE mark, that they are owners of common law rights in the GOOGLE mark and that they have the right to license the GOOGLE mark to third parties.
Swift v. Zynga Game Network, Inc. et alNovember 17, 2009 
Cable et al v. Microsoft CorporationFebruary 27, 2009 
Plaintiffs claim that the Xbox 360 video game console suffered from numerous hardware defects: (1) the red ring of death renders the console inoperable; (2) the optical disk drive scratches discs when the console is titled or swiveled; and (3) Error Code 74.
Microsoft Corporation v. Griffin IT Media, Inc.February 27, 2009 
Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleged that Defendant Griffin IT Media, Inc. infringed on Plaintiff's trade and service marks by registering Internet domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Microsoft's trademarks and service marks, and by using those domain names in bad faith to profit from Microsoft's marks. Defendant's allegedly infringing domain names: hotmailprofile.com; teamhalo.com; x360live.com; xboxclan.com; xboxemulation.com; xboxheaven.com; xboxinsider.com; xboxmodding.com; xboxsale.com; xboxserver.com; sboxservice.com
Microsoft Corporation v. Instaclick, Inc. et alFebruary 27, 2009 
Plaintiff Microsoft Corporation alleged that Defendants Instaclick, Inc. and Dan Traina infringed Microsoft's trade and service marks by registering Internet domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to Microsoft's trademarks and services marks, and by using those domain names in bad faith to profit from Microsoft's marks.
Monster Cable Products, Inc. v. Avalanche CorporationOctober 20, 2008 
Thomas v. Electronic Arts, Inc.September 22, 2008 
Plaintiff Melissa Thomas alleged that Defendant Electronic Arts, Inc. intentionally did not disclose to any Spore purchasers that the game disk possessed a second, hidden program which secretly installed to the command and control center of the computer and surreptitiously operated, overseeing function and operation on the computer, preventing the computer from operating under certain circumstances and/or disrupting hardware operations.
Girafa.Com,Inc. v. Alexa Internet, Inc. et alJune 2, 2008 
Yahoo! Inc. v. XYZ Companies et alMay 16, 2008 
Plaintiff Yahoo! alleges that defendants disseminated mass electronic mail messages claiming that the recipient had won a lottery, prize or other award from Yahoo! Defendants then allegedly lured recipients into sending personal information to them, which was used to access bank accounts and credit cards, apply for credit cards or loans, and create fraudulent identification documents. Defendants also duped the recipients into sending them money for processing and mailing charges.
Monster Cable Products v. Monster Mini Golf, et al.May 12, 2008 
eBay Inc. v. Telebay LLCMarch 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 alFebruary 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.
Sprinkles Cupcakes, Inc. v. Halpenny et alFebruary 8, 2008 
Plaintiff Sprinkles Cupcakes, Inc. alleged that Defendants Elizabeth Halpenny and Ali Loewenstein d/b/a SprinkleSprinkle infringed on Plaintiff's Sprinkles Marks.
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. et al v. RDR Books et alOctober 31, 2007 
Copyright, trademark and other claims against publisher of Harry Potter Lexicon, an unauthorized compendium of Harry Potter facts, plots, etc.
Red Bull North America, Inc. v. Dicey's 2nd Street,IncJuly 18, 2007 
Plaintiff Red Bull North America, Inc. and Red Bull GmbH LLC alleged that Defendants Dicey's 2nd Street, Inc. d/b/a Dicey Riley's, Michael Brennan and Aileen Comer passed off Red Fuel and Red Light as Red Bull.