Indio Products, Inc. v. Camao, Inc. (C.D. Cal. 2016)
Jan 01, 2018OUTCOME: Case settled on favorable terms
Copyright and trademark infringement involving packaging, product graphics and text
Westlake Village, CA
Patent infringement Lawyer at Westlake Village, CA
Practice Areas: Patent Infringement, Trademark Infringement ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Case settled on favorable terms
Copyright and trademark infringement involving packaging, product graphics and text
OUTCOME: Case settled on favorable terms, disputed trademark transferred to client
Trademark infringement case involving volleyball apparel and tournaments
OUTCOME: Case settled on favorable terms
Patent infringement case involving automatic-opening trash cans, invalidity contentions and claim constructions exchanged but not decided. Case settled on favorable terms.
OUTCOME: Case settled on favorable terms
Patent infringement case with multiple threatened but not-yet-sued defendants. Represented approximately eight entities to settle case with plaintiff
OUTCOME: Summary judgment of invalidity granted, $254,537 in fees awarded to client
Copyright infringement case involving food packaging. We represented defendant and won summary judgment due to plaintiff's failure to prove that it owned the copyright for the photograph that formed t ... he entirety of its infringement claim. We also won an award of attorney fees $254,537.46
OUTCOME: Affirmed in part, vacated in part, remanded
We fully briefed the case before the client hired new counsel to argue it. This was a patent infringement case involving shoes, which we had won on summary judgment. The Court followed our argument ... to apply the Egyptian Goddess case, and eliminate the points of novelty test for anticipation. This was a case of first impression, since the Egyptian Goddess opinion said its holding applied only to infringement, and not invalidity. The Court also upheld the lower court's ruling that the elements considered by the lower court were sufficiently similar to be anticipatory. What the Court reversed was the lower court's failure to consider the insole of the accused shoe during the anticipation analysis, which the lower court thought it did not have to consider because it was hidden by the user's foot while the shoe was being worn. We had never advocated that position in the lower court, the court simply made that determination itself.
OUTCOME: Summary judgment of invalidity granted
Defended Walgreens and Touchsport against design patent infringement involving plastic clog shoes. We successfully argued that the three design patents were invalid due to Crocs prior art. Case is ... noteworthy as the first time the Egyptian Goddess case (eliminating the point of novelty test for infringement) was applied to an invalidity analysis.
OUTCOME: Settled
Represented Albrecht-Piazza for cancellation of defendant's California trademark registration of "MT. CARMEL VINEYARDS" that conflicted with plaintiff's federal registration and was not supported by ac ... tual trademark use. Defendant assigned California trademark registration to Plaintiff.
OUTCOME: Settled, obtained permanent license
Defended Simple Container against patent infringement regarding insulated shipping containers.
OUTCOME: Settled
Brought suit on behalf of Exhart for design patent, copyright, and trade dress infringement, and unfair competition regarding garden ornaments. Exhart had sued defendant previously and alleged it had ... knowledge of the IP, and thus its infringement was willful.