VIZ Media Wins over IP infringement against Defaulting Defendants
Manga publisher VIZ Media wins its lawsuit against over 100 entities found to have willfully committed trademark and copyright infringement of its RWBY IP. …District Judge Lindsay C. Jenkins ordered on February 25, 2025, that the 131 remaining defendants in the lawsuit will pay $100,000 in damages for willful trademark infringement and another $100,000 in willful copyright infringement.
As the custom and bootleg market has continued to grow within the sneaker scene, Nike has responded by protecting its brand and IP via lawsuits against prominent parties ranging from Warren Lotas and John Geiger to BAPE and Kool Kiy. While the three aforementioned cases have all been settled, a new lawsuit has surfaced — one against The Shoe Surgeon. The suit demands $60M USD in damages — which, it notes, are “the profits the defendant generated from counterfeiting, trebled, along with attorneys’ fees” — relating to over 30 Nike trademarks.
A week after the release of her highly anticipated Rhode beauty brand, Hailey Bieber is being sued by L.A. fashion label Rhode over potential trademark infringement. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the label founded in 2014 by Purna Khatau and Phoebe Vickers and carried by luxury retailers including Net-a-Porter,
Stockholm-headquartered Polar Music International, which owns a number of ABBA trademarks and service marks, is officially suing a UK-based tribute band called ABBA Mania for alleged “trademark counterfeiting and infringement, dilution, unfair competition, and cybersquatting. ”Polar Music, which says that it’s overseen ABBA’s music releases, tour promotion, and intellectual property “since the band’s founding,” just recently submitted the shocking lawsuit to a New York federal court. Spanning 24 pages, the verbose complaint lists as defendants UK companies Handshake and TAL Entertainment as well as individuals (also located in the UK) named James Stuart Littlewood and Todd Littlewood.
音楽用電子機器を販売するズーム(東京都千代田区)は9月17日、米Zoom Video Communications(ZVC)のWeb会議システム「Zoom」が同社の登録商標を侵害しているとして、日本でZoomを提供しているNEC子会社のNECネッツエスアイに対して侵害行為の差し止めを求める訴訟を、東京地方裁判所に提起したと発表した。損害賠償は請求せず「和解金などでの解決を排除する姿勢」を見せている。
Zoom Video Communications Inc.’s new “Zapps” function for integrating third-party apps infringes Zapier Inc.’s trademarks covering similar services, according to a complaint filed Monday in San Francisco federal court.
TOKYO (June 29, 2020) – Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) today announced that it secured a victory in its trademark and trade dress infringement*1 lawsuit