<div dir="ltr">I represented a Canadian national pro bono in a case where she was fully licensed under Tee Public's Fan Art Program. The accused product (1) was fully authorized by the brand through that program and tagged as such (2) did not mention the Mark at all, but rather used an infamous line from the TV show the mark was associated with (3) did not use the mark in the Design Title or Description of the Tee Public listing (4) grossed a total of $19.30 American dollars. The only mention of the mark, at all, was in one of the tags (and that mention is entirely nominative). The poor woman collapsed in the middle of the grocery store when I said I would help her for free -- her husband is a graduate student and she is supporting him and their two kids via her art, and she could not afford to pay a U.S. lawyer to fight it. However, she sold a lot of her original artwork via that platform, and thus had real money locked up in her Pay Pal account. The Plaintiff was smart enough to dismiss quickly (and before I could seek sanctions) but a quick dismissal without prejudice cannot wipe away the trauma of being sued in Federal Court in a foreign country when you've done everything right. The dismissed so quickly they never got to asking me or my client for confidentiality, and my client is fine with me shouting about this injustice from the rooftops.<div><br></div><div>To say that these Schedule A cases are a mess is an understatement. By freezing the accounts before making any proof, getting a fast default, and collecting the frozen proceeds, what we are witnessing is court-sanctioned theft and an absolute lack of due process. </div><div><br></div><div>I have defended enough of them now that I am no longer shocked. Yet each one makes me lose more faith in our legal system.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Dineen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 1:43 PM Gordon, Michael via E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8231133781723345513">
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found</a> what is probably the docket where Combs was awarded $250k in statutory damages from Harness. The plaintiff, dates, and amounts match up to
<i>Combs v. Schedule A</i>, No. 1:23-cv-14485. Three defendants have been <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.446227/gov.uscourts.ilnd.446227.32.0.pdf" target="_blank">
dismissed without prejudice</a> (after <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ilnd.446227/gov.uscourts.ilnd.446227.31.0.pdf" target="_blank">
default final judgment</a> entered, which is a little odd) and for one, called LAKELAI, the plaintiff has filed a
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro",sans-serif">One thing that concerns me about this particular case is that the method of service that’s used can theoretically work for a
<i>foreign</i> defendant, but, at least by my reading of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, shouldn’t work for a
<i>domestic </i>defendant. As Prof. Goldman points out in his paper, service in these cases is done under Rule 4(f), which allows the court to authorize service on an individual in a foreign country (and, through Rule 4(h)(2), a foreign entity) in any “means
not prohibited by international agreement.” For domestic persons and entities, it has to be by personal service, leaving a copy with a person at the person’s residence, to an agent authorized by law, or as permitted by state law either in the venue court or
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro",sans-serif">At this point, everybody has acknowledged that the defendant in dispute here is a person in the U.S. and service was effected (to the extent it was) in the U.S. So why is
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro",sans-serif">Then we get to an issue of sanctions. I think that there’s at least a reasonable chance that the name and physical address information that Harness provided to Amazon was
truthful and accurate. It seems the plaintiff and his attorneys did little to no work to verify that the person was not in the U.S. and that the information was false. Is that Rule 11 sanctionable behavior for presenting to the court “factual contentions”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro",sans-serif">But this is not the most egregious case of suing a U.S. defendant in a Schedule A case. Ed Timberlake earlier in this thread linked to
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said that they’re not a Chinese or other foreign entity at all, in fact, they’re an LLC whose members live and have a warehouse in Connecticut where they ship the accused items from. The principal of the defendant appeared at the court status teleconference
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MR. JONES [plaintiffs' counsel]: That's not true, Your Honor.<br>
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MR. JONES: They have no basis in the United States. The address that they've provided is a PO box.<br>
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MR. JONES: ...And I'd have to do more research to find out where Reginald Jennings [principal of defendant at issue] lives, but I don't think he is from Tucson, Arizona, and that he created a fake address just for the purpose of this LLC.<br>
THE COURT: So Mr. Jennings has submitted a declaration in which he states under penalty of perjury that he is a resident of the State of Connecticut. Are you saying you believe that to be false?<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro",sans-serif">Jennings was later sworn and provided his business’s physical address in Connecticut. Most of us, I think, would back down, or at least offer to withdraw the allegation until
we have done further research, when a person purporting to be the principal of the defendant hires counsel and appears in court saying giving his physical business address on the record under oath. Later in the same hearing, the court asked plaintiff’s counsel
what his client’s address was in Chicago, as its location in Chicago was alleged as part of the basis for venue in the Northern District of Illinois. He identified it as the same address as his law firm, where the plaintiff has no employees or operations.
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</span><span style="font-family:Consolas">e-trademarks-l</span><span style="font-family:"Neue Haas Grotesk Text Pro",sans-serif"> and not one of Carl’s patent lists, I’ve seen these cases allege design patent infringement and even
<b>utility patent</b> infringement to get a TRO and courts go along with it, often without ever addressing validity or claim construction issues, which the Federal Circuit expects to be done on preliminary injunctions.
<i>E.g.</i>, <i>Trebro Mfg., Inc. v. FireFly Equip., LLC</i>, 748 F.3d 1159, 1166 (Fed. Cir. 2014). And only rarely does a court question joinder, even in the face of the patent-specific joinder statute in
<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/299" target="_blank">35 U.S.C. § 299</a>, which was enacted specifically to combat multiple unrelated defendants being sued in the same patent infringement case.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> E-trademarks <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">e-trademarks-bounces@oppedahl-lists.com</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Eric Goldman via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 20, 2023 10:55 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Eric Goldman <<a href="mailto:egoldman@gmail.com" target="_blank">egoldman@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jessica R. Friedman via E-trademarks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 20, 2023 8:46 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> For trademark practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice. <<a href="mailto:e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">e-trademarks@oppedahl-lists.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Jessica R. Friedman <<a href="mailto:jrfriedman@litproplaw.com" target="_blank">jrfriedman@litproplaw.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [E-trademarks] Hivemind thoughts on the Luke Combs counterfeiting case?<u></u><u></u></p>
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