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In this Lanham Act suit by plaintiff Se­lect Auto Imports Inc. against Yates Se­lect Auto Sales LLC, an Alexandria U.S. District Court finds that all nine factors in the likelihood of confusion analysis weigh in favor of plaintiff or are ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Gerald Bruce Lee U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court dis­misses plaintiff’s suit seeking an origina­tion fee for his alleged role in procuring defendant defense contractor as an inves­tor in an Arkansas company. Plaintiff alleged an Arkansas corpora­tion named Vision Technologies Inc. au­thorized him to ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge James C. Cacheris U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A plaintiff who alleges he performed under a consulting agreement with de­fendants to develop real estate in Bris­tol, Virginia, and is owed $6,000 per month for his service and $18,170.82 in expenses, as well as an ownership stake in the ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge James P. Jones U.S. District Court - Western District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court rejects a patent applicant’s latest ef­fort to avoid paying the court-ordered sum of $36,320.49 for expenses, includ­ing attorney’s fees, of the Patent and Trademark Office pursuant to § 21(b) (3) of the Lanham Act, in ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

An Alexandria U.S. District Court grants the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s motion for partial dismissal of plaintiff ’s claim that he should be awarded credit for time attributable to various delays caused by the PTO during the continued examination ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In plaintiff company’s challenge to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision rejecting the patentability of inventions claims in plaintiff ’s ‘161 ap­plication, the PTO’s defense of lack of standing is not barred by the doctrine of collateral estoppel, says ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge T.S. Ellis III U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this action arising out of disputes concerning nine equipment contracts and a revolving agricultural/commer­cial credit account, the complaint’s ref­erences to “assignors of the contracts” cannot be read to mean plaintiffs have failed to join an assignor as a party ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge M. Hannah Lauck U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Plaintiffs’ claims that defendant’s ‘432 patent, relating to a method for centralized identification and authen­tication of users and their transactions to increase security in e-commerce, are invalid because they are directed to an abstract idea and thus are ineligible for ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Robert G. Doumar U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In this shareholder derivative suit by a 33-percent owner of a private, close­ly held timber company, challenging a compensation package for a new Chief Executive Officer who is not related by blood or marriage to either of the two families ...

Tagged with: Corporate Judge Anthony J. Trenga U.S. District Court - Eastern District

In a pharmaceutical company’s Lanham Act suit alleging defendant pharmaceuti­cal company cut into plaintiff’s profits by listing in industry databases a proposed generic equivalent to plaintiff’s Donna­tal drug for irritable bowel syndrome, a Charlottesville U.S. District Court ex­cludes testimony from ...

Tagged with: Intellectual Property Judge Glen E. Conrad U.S. District Court - Western District