<div dir="auto">The dirty little secret of Trademark (and copyright) enforcement right now, is how many thousands of little people are being slammed with these massive judgments and their money frozen so they can’t even afford to pay for a defense (if they ever could). Service by email often goes to spam or is not understood as being real. Sometimes Plaintiffs settle for collecting whatever is in the PayPal or other merchant account seized, but other times they are very aggressive about garnishing accounts. We really need a statutory damages reform it is too easy to prove willfulness and too easy to get Federal judges to make large awards. There is little to tether stat damages to reality. Yes, we need to deter people from making money off of others’ IP. Yes, they should be disgorged of profits. But there is no need to crush families who are just trying to do a little side gig to get by, however misguided. The need for deterrence is amply met without bankrupting people. (Oh wait, with a default you admit willfulness and this the judgment is likely not discharge or in bankruptcy, either).</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 9:45 AM Kevin Grierson 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-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,sans-serif">Thanks. I read about this case. Hadn’t seen the article, but I had the same thought—it was a bit weird that Combs apparently didn’t know who he was suing. I also thought it
was kind of crazy that he got default judgments for $250K in statutory damages. I realize that statutory damages aren’t the same as actual damages, but it was my recollection from my litigation days that even if you got a default judgment you still had to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> 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>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></span></p>
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