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30 Jun

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Newman Du Wors attorneys Derek Newman and Nate Durrance defeated a plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a patent infringement case. The firm defended Doc Manufacturing and Snell Crane, against a competitor, who owned a patent for a product with similar functionality to the clients’ innovative construction hoisting device. After the court denied the plaintiff’s motion to stop Newman Du Wors’ clients from selling their product, the case immediately settled. See Applied Dynamics International,...

29 Jun

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Newman Du Wors attorneys Derek Newman, Jason Sykes, and Rachel Horvitz were on a multi law-firm team that won an order which stopped President Trump from implementing a ban of transgender military service members. Newman Du Wors accepts pro bono cases that are of significant public concern, especially where the government discriminates against citizens in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution or has violated free speech or expression rights under...

28 Jun

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Newman Du Wors attorneys Derek Newman and Jessica Newman won a preliminary injunction for its client, Kreation Organic, Southern California’s premier juicery and healthy-cuisine restaurant chain. When a new restaurant popped up with “Creation” as part of its name, Kreation hired Newman Du Wors to shut it down. After winning an initial order requiring the new restaurant to change its name, Newman Du Wors ultimately won a permanent injunction prohibiting the defendants from using any...

27 Jun

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Newman Du Wors attorneys Derek Newman, Jason Sykes, and Jessica Newman won an order from a Delaware federal court to take the deposition of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO. The so-called “Apex Doctrine” usually protects the CEO of a big company from having to sit for a deposition. Newman Du Wors convinced the court that Zuckerberg’s testimony was necessary to the case, and so the deposition proceeded. See Social Ranger LLC v. Facebook Inc., U.S. District...

26 Jun

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Newman Du Wors attorneys Derek Newman and Jason Sykes won a permanent injunction preventing use of an infringing domain name. WestCoastCorvettes.com hired Newman Du Wors to get the domain name from an infringing user. After the initial preliminary injunction was one, the firm won the case, without trial, on summary judgment. The judge found the case to be exceptional, entitling our client to attorney fees.  Defendant transferred the domain name and paid Newman Du Wors’...

02 Mar

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In another successful patent case, Newman | Du Wors attorneys Derek Newman and Keith Scully together with a joint-defense team convinced a California federal judge to declare as invalid a patent for the use of D-aspartic acid (DAA) in dietary supplements. The ruling allows Muscle Warfare, Inc., Newman Du Wors’s client, to continue manufacturing and marketing products containing DAA. Muscle Warfare and several other defendants were sued for patent infringement by ThermoLife International LLC. The suit...