August 02, 2017
A Washington federal judge on Wednesday ordered the operator of a Vancouver store called Pirate Joe's to stop reselling merchandise purchased from Trader Joe's Co., affirming an arbitrator's enforcement of a settlement the operator reached with the grocery chain.
September 14, 2016
A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday denied to reconsider the language that it used in its decision reviving trademark claims from Trader Joe's against the owner of a store called Pirate Joe's, who had asked the court to revise its use of the word "mimic."
June 07, 2016
Trader Joe's urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to revive its trademark infringement suit against a Vancouver man who buys groceries at its U.S. stores and resells them at his Canadian store Pirate Joe's, arguing the pirate's lax food safety protocols could poison the grocery chain's good name.
December 19, 2013
A Washington federal judge on Thursday shut down the remainder of a lawsuit filed by grocery chain Trader Joe's against a Vancouver man who buys groceries at U.S. stores and then sells them at a Canadian store he named Pirate Joe's.
October 02, 2013
A Washington federal judge Wednesday tossed specialty grocery chain Trader Joe's Co.'s lawsuit accusing a Vancouver man of violating its trademarked brand by buying items in the U.S. and reselling them in Canada, citing a lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
August 21, 2013
Specialty grocery chain Trader Joe's Co. fired back Monday at a Vancouver man's bid to dismiss the company's trademark infringement accusations against him, saying his Canadian mailing address shouldn't spare him from liability.