Aurora, seller of YOOHOO AND FRIENDS plush dolls sues Ty, maker of BEANIE BOOS plush dolls for copyright and trade dress infringement, regardnig dolls that have crossed eyes, big pupils and colored irises.
The photograph of the Beanie Boos was taken by Sondra Schlossberg.
Memo Yoohoo v Beanie Boo Copyright Trade Dress
Trade Dress Suit Re Danish Cookie Tins
Note that I did not have access to legible exhibits to the complaint. I understand these to be cookie tins offered by plaintiff and defendant and not necessarily the products involved in this action.
Complaint Danish Butter Cookies
Knoll v Mod Decor re ‘Shape’ of Barcelona Collection
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