Proving Trademark Violation Complicated by Claims Between ‘Bitter’ Ex-Spouses

Business Valuation UpdateVol. 15 No. 12
Legal and Court Case Update
December 2009
5084 Industrial Machinery and Equipment
423830 Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
intellectual property

Zinn v. Seruga
2009 WL 3128353 (D. N.J.)
September 28, 2009
US
Federal Court
New Jersey
United States District Court
William Morrison (plaintiff/husband); Richard Lane (defendant/wife)
Brown

Summary

Ex-spouses claim trademark infringement; court finds ex-husband liable and assesses damages based on expert evidence of gross infringing (but not competing) sales, multiplied by estimated profit margins.

See Also

Zinn v. Seruga

Ex-spouses claim trademark infringement; court finds ex-husband liable and assesses damages based on expert evidence of gross infringing (but not competing) sales, multiplied by estimated profit margins.