Our Results

Feldman Law Group (FLG) has been successfully resolving clients’ intellectual property issues for over forty years. Here are some of our successes in the past few years and months.

Defending Local Merchants and Making Law: The “Exito” Case

When a huge South American corporation sued a small chain of Bronx grocery stores for using the name “Exito” (meaning “Success” in Spanish), FLG argued the Plaintiff had no trademark rights in the United States. The Plaintiff was known as “the Wal-Mart of South America”, having long prior use of the “Exito” designation in Columbia and the rest of the South American continent. Plaintiff had even applied for a United States trademark registration. However, it had never used the trademark in the United States before the Bronx grocers.

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Protecting the Public: The “Karat Platinum” case

We represented the Jeweler’s Vigilance Committee (a trade organization that fights for integrity in jewelry marketing) who objected to trademark registration of “Karat Platinum”, for jewelry not full composed of platinum, and containing no gold. We collected extensive evidence (including formal consumer surveys) that the public views the word “Karat” only as a measure of gold, and hence that “Karat Platinum” for non gold jewelry is deceptive. After the applicant was informed of this evidence, it failed to respond to our motion to dismiss its answer.

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Insuring a Defense: The Quatrefoil Jewelry case

When a group of small jewelers were sued by Van Cleef and Arpels (part of Richemont Group) for making clover shaped jewelry, the small companies could not afford defense. FLG presented the case to the defendants’ CGL business insurance carriers. Although the carriers denied coverage and defense for long periods, persistent negotiations and briefing on insurance law produced results. At least on insurer agreed to defend the case, and more than one agreed to coverage. The case was soon settled with the insurers paying for the settlement amount.

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Stopping Patent Infringers: The Invisible Setting cases

When a jeweler invented an improvement on invisible settings, it inspired Patent infringement of the improved method. In a shot time, FLG brought and settled a series of Patent infringement suits efficiently shutting down the infringement.

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Defending an Invalid Invention: The Matt case

When a house ware Plaintiff tried to enforce an alleged invention of a thin matt with writing showing through the top, FLG successfully defended the Patent infringement suit. After taking some discovery and locating prior art that almost exactly matched the Plaintiff’s invention, FLG asked the Court to dismiss the only independent claim of the Patent. The Chicago Illinois District Court, considered the issue for over a year, and then agreed. It ruled the Patent’s independent claim invalid.

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