This must be geek lawyer heaven !
The Washington, D.C.-based bar association sued the California-based Association of American Trial Lawyers for trademark infringement and unfair competition.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) changed its name in 2006 to the American Association for Justice (AAJ), saying it wanted to focus on what its members do, rather than what they call themselves.
But that doesn’t mean AAJ is willing to give up the old name without a fight.
On Friday the Washington, D.C.-based bar association sued the California-based Association of American Trial Lawyers (AOATL) for trademark infringement and unfair competition. It accuses AOATL of trying to “trade on the good will existing in connection with the ATLA and ASSOCIATION OF TRIAL LAWYERS OF AMERICA marks, or to otherwise lead consumers to believe that there was some connection or affiliation between its goods and/or services and those of Plaintiff.”
The world’s largest trial lawyer bar was able to summon considerable firepower for its complaint. Robins Kaplan IP litigation chairman Chris Larus and associate Taylor Moore-Willis joined Christopher Nace of D.C.’s Paulson & Nace and Craig Hilliard of New Jersey’s Stark & Stark on AAJ’s complaint.
Read more at . https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/07/01/trial-lawyer-bar-launches-trademark-fight-over-its-former-name/
