A name dispute has been settled between Jamieson Ranch Vineyards of California and the more famous Jameson Irish Whiskey. The legal battle over their similar names was dropped when Jamieson convinced Jameson that it had no plans to ever make spirits. The case originated in February when Jameson sent Jameison a cease-and-desist order. The Irish
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 — Los Angeles business litigation attorneyRobert G. Klein has been admitted “pro hac vice” to serve as lead trial counsel in a United States District Court in the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Klein is seeking to rescind a sale of assets including a trademark related to luxury goods and
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 21, 2012 — Los Angeles business litigation attorneyRobert G. Klein said that the 41-year-old naturalized citizen recently sentenced to four years in federal prison after being convicted of stealing trade secrets from Motorola calls attention to the steps that all businesses need to take to protect confidential information. The Chinese-born software engineer reportedly had
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Mar. 15, 2012 — Los Angeles business litigation attorney Robert G. Klein has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a client who invested more than $1.2 million with a man he trusted as his partner. The investor only later discovered that the former partner kept most of the money for himself and later
A defendant is generally given 20 to 30 days to respond to a complaint. If the complaint is ignored or not responded to by the deadline, then the plaintiff is allowed to ask for a default judgment. Plaintiffs can then present evidence supporting their complaint and then the court can make a default judgment. In
On November 13, the Los Angeles Superior Court frustrated Mattel’s motion to dismiss a $1 billion trade secret lawsuit, which was filed by MGA Entertainment. The lawsuit was filed because MGA accused Mattel of spying on it and other companies for years at toy shows. This decision is just one part of a long-standing legal feud
A.V.E.L.A., Inc. and Fleischer Studios, Inc. are in a major legal battle over a well-known cartoon character from the 1930s and 1940s. Namely, Betty Boop. Despite being 70 years removed from her glory days, she still commands enough interest to attract lawsuits over trademark infringement. Fleischer Studios, which was created in the 1970s by the family
Hothead’s game app Kill Shot is beating Glu Mobile’s game app, Deer Hunter, by eight spots in a list of Apple’s top-grossing games for the iTunes App Store. However, Hothead could lose to Glu Mobile in a copyright and trade dress infringement lawsuit. The argument by Glu Mobile is that the games are identical, except that Kill Shot
Apple has successfully defeated a so-called “patent troll” lawsuit from GPNE, who claimed the well-known tech company owed it $94 million for various patent infringements. GPNE is a technology company that owns several patents, but it does not sell a product. Instead, the company makes its money from licensing fees that other companies pay to
In 1999, Congress passed the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) as an amendment to the Lanham Act. The bill defined cybersquatters as people who register a trademark with “bad faith intent to profit” from it, or anyone who traffics in “protected” domain names. The ACPA is being invoked in the case of Petrolium Nasional Berhad,
