Knoll, successor in interest to Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona collection, sues Mod Decor on ‘look-a-like’ furntiure.
Mod Decor’s ‘modern seating’ page here.
Prior post on protection of Barcelona chair here.
Drawing from Knoll’s registration in the Barcelona couch above.
Knoll filed a similar lawsuit against Sexyfurnishings today as well.
Complaint Barcelona Chair
Complaint Alleging Trade Dress In Software
Fidelity sues defendant for copyright infringement and trade dress in software.
Decision in a W.D. Washington website trade dress case here.
Complaint Trade Dress Software
Pictures Not Worth 1000 Words: How To Plead Trade Dress Infringement and Dilution
Plaintiff is the authorized distributor of the BELLINI CHAIR. A registration for the shape of the chair looks like this:
Design Within Reach had been an authorized retailer of the BELLINI chair:
Then DNR came out with a chair that looked like this:
Plaintiff sued on trade dress infringement and dilution (Bellini complaint previously
DALLAS BBQ v HARLEM BBQ Restaurant Trade Dress Case
Former employee of DALLAS BBQ starts BBQ HARLEM. Allegations of trade secret as well as trade dress infringement (signs, awnings, etc.). Photo from here.
Complaint Bbq
Nike Asserts Protection of Wavy Pattern on AIR FORCE 1 Shoe
Nike owns a registration in the design of the AIR FORCE 1 sneaker (middle picture) consisting of “the design of the stitching on the exterior of the shoe, the design of the material panels that form the exterior body of the shoe, the design of the wavy panel on the top of the shoe that
Trade Dress Complaint Bounced For Failure To Allege Factus of Non-Functionality
Via Loeb and Loeb: Do Denim v Fried Denim:
Although Plaintiff’s opposition papers contain various generalized assertions about the nature of the jeans industry and the extent to which jeans designers rely on back-pocket-embroidered designs that may or may not be similar ot the Dragon Design, the Amended Compaint itself contains no factual allegation as
CLEAN v KLEAN Perfume/Cosmetics Trade Dress
From the complaint: Each of plaintiff’s CLEAN products and marketing materials bear inherently distinctive designs and/or such design have acquired distinctivenss wherein the word “CLEAN” appears large and starkly on the labeling with larger than appropriate spacing between each letter of CLEAN. (para. 11). Defendants are selling a line of fragrance and skin care products
MUSCLE MILK Enjoins MUSCLE POWER trade dress
Note the discussion of the strength of the MUSCLE element, for a suppement sold to bodybuidlers, as well as defendant’s ‘options’ with regard to the choice of the octagonal packaging from a third-party vendor, Tetra Pak.
Decision Vital Pharm
SDNY: Gucci v Guess – Trade Dress
The advance service didn’t print the exhibits and the complaint isn’t on Pacer. The complaint refers to Gucci’s red green stripe and a pattern of interlocking G’s (I pulled the picture above randomly – it’s not from the complaint). If you know what the Guess product looks like, give a holler.
Complaint Gucci v Guess
Who Is Suing The Watchmen?
Chock Full Of Nuts is the heavenly coffee, better coffee a millionaire’s money can’t buy. Nite Owl is a character from the WATCHMEN movie. Defendant came out with Nite Owl Coffee, apparently as merchandising related to the movie.
First aside: I speculate that the (registered) checkerboard design on the CFON label alludes to the ‘