Representative Cases

Mr. Elliott and his firm filed a civil action on behalf of a Houston-based cigar club partnership seeking injunctive relief and attorneys fees for the infringement of its trademarks HOUSTON CIGAR WEEK and HOUSTON CIGAR ALLIANCE, as well as for false advertising by the defendants for misrepresenting that they own and manage the Plaintiff. The case is currently pending in federal district court in Houston.

Mr. Elliott and his firm are pursuing an infringement case on behalf of the owner of VLZ Elite Concepts, an auto collision repair company in Victoria, Texas, against a competing company that has been using the identical term “VLZ” in advertising and in its company name. The case is currently pending and scheduled for trial in March 2021.

Mr. Elliott and his firm are defending LUC Technologies, a small Houston-based company that specializes in downhole electrical connectors, in a trade secret lawsuit filed in federal district court in Houston by one of the world’s largest electrical connector companies. The case is still pending.

Mr. Elliott and his firm defended Aaron Simpson, former U.S. Marine and creator of a successful clothing brand, in a lawsuit filed against him by a company that claimed ownership of the same trademarks that Simpson himself created. The case was settled before trial.

Mr. Elliott and his firm represented a successful restauranteur and franchisor seeking to enforce his federal service mark rights in the mark “KRAB KINGZ” used in connection with his restaurant franchise operation against a competing business using a similar name “KRAB QUEENZ.” A lawsuit was filed in federal district court in Houston, Texas. Shortly after filing the lawsuit and before discovery was scheduled to begin, the parties reached a settlement.

Mr. Elliott and his firm defended two Houston companies and their owner as in an action filed in federal district court in Seattle, Washington. The case was brought by Amazon.com and Vera Bradley Designs, Inc., and involved allegations of trademark and copyright infringement. The plaintiffs pursued a theory that defendants sold “counterfeit” goods imported from China. The defendants presented evidence the goods were not in fact “counterfeit” at all but were genuine “gray market” Vera Bradley products made in Vera Bradley’s own factories in China. The case was settled before trial.