I promised to post more info. Sorry I am so late.
All of our lawsuits except one were filed in Utah Federal District Court, and the number I provide is the case number. This makes it easy for you to look the case(s) up, if you want more details on any of them (the one case that was not Utah District court was filed in Washington State, per my previous post).
Our most troublesome counterfeit lawsuits experience was:
rebornbabyworld.com 2:21-cv-00088
They were doing business as “Reborn Baby World”, but their actual company name is “Shenzhen Qianhai Topology”.
We documented a LOT of infringements this company was doing. They were actually impersonating us (using a picture of our building as “theirs”, using an address that differed by only one digit, and a LOT more). We documented:
- Threats of violence (I actually got a death threat, and we brought the police in)
- Youtube infringement
- Infringing and/or Fraudulent Website Elements
- Reports of people that have been scammed by this website
- Specific Bountiful Baby Products Being Infringed
- Specific 3rd Party Products Being Infringed
Our case against this company was VERY strong, and VERY serious, and had already involved the police.
This company eventually paid us $140,000 to make this case go away, plus agreed to take everything down. We accepted the $140,000 and dropped the case. And yes, we actually received the money before dropping the case.
This is the ONLY counterfeits case that we did not take all of the way to a court judgment, because they instead paid us the money to make it go away (edited: I misspoke, we settled another one similarly, which I will talk about in a different post)
I will post info on the other cases in follow up posts.
Nevin
Updated: Our 2nd lawsuit, case #2:21-cv-00574, was against these 7 defendants, all of whom were convicted of counterfeiting:
- Love Reborn Dolls (LoveRebornDolls.com)
- LTD Information Technology Co., Ltd.
- Nine9Light Company
- Reborn Baby Mart (RebornBabyMart.com)
- Reborn Baby Stores (RebornBabyStores.com)
- Reborn Box (RebornBox.com)
- Reborn Dolls Shop (RebornDollsShop.com)
The total award was several million dollars, of which only a few hundred thousand have (so far) been collected. The collected money was from USA based assets that we were able to locate and have the court issue WRITS OF GARNISHMENT against.
There are about 20 or so other defendants from 10 other lawsuits that I still need to talk about when I have a chance.
Nevin