September 27, 2016
A California federal judge on Monday denied a motion for attorneys' fees to a victorious trademark-infringement defendant, blasting the hookah wholesaler for a litigation strategy that he says wasted the court's time and might have even been an indication of bad faith.
August 18, 2016
A California federal judge questioned why a hookah distributor waited to claim it can’t be penalized for allegedly counterfeiting trademarks that weren’t yet registered, but vacated the rest of the $2 million jury verdict he reduced last month anyway, saying to do otherwise would cause a “manifest injustice,” according to a Wednesday filing.
July 11, 2016
A California federal judge trimmed a hookah maker's $2 million jury verdict on Monday after holding that there was sufficient evidence to support the finding that a distributor willfully infringed the company's trademarks with knockoffs but not to justify the entire statutory damages award.
June 10, 2016
A California hookah maker was awarded $2 million in statutory damages Wednesday by a jury that found that a small distributor willfully infringed the company's trademark with knockoffs sold in a Southern California store in 2015.