Tracking Northern District of Illinois IP Cases
McLellan v. Google LLC, No. 25 C 12761, (N.D. Ill. May 4, 2026) (Kennelly, J.).
Judge Kennelly granted Google’s motion to transfer this patent infringement case to the Northern District of California pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) and left Google’s motion to dismiss for the transferee court.
Plaintiff McLellan alleged that Google’s search…
Encore Packaging, LLC v. Benchmark Industrial Inc., No. 25 C 6865, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Mar. 19, 2026) (Durkin, J.).
Judge Durkin denied Defendant Benchmark Industrial’s Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in this case involving claims for copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and breach of contract…
Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery, LLP v. Dorsey et al., No. 1:25-cv-3141, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Feb. 23, 2026) (Coleman, J.).
Judge Coleman granted Defendants’ Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) motion to dismiss in this declaratory judgment action where the plaintiff Fitch Even sought a declaration that its former client’s CEO was not a…
Specialty Publishing Company v. UDA Technologies, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-3873, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Jan. 13, 2026) (Coleman, J.).
Judge Coleman granted Defendant UDA Technologies’ Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2) motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in this trademark infringement case involving Plaintiff Specialty Publishing’s CONSTRUCTECH’S TOP PRODUCTS mark. Although the Court found…
Judge Coleman dismissed Fendi’s Schedule A trademark/copyright complaint without prejudice for lack of specific personal jurisdiction and improper joinder after the Court raised the issues sua sponte.
While not reaching the merits of Lanham Act or…
Art Ask Agency v. Schedule A Does, No. 25 C 4359, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Oct. 9, 2025) (Coleman, J.).
Judge Coleman denied plaintiff Art Ask Agency’s motion for default judgment and dismissed Art Ask Agency’s Schedule A copyright case for lack of personal jurisdiction pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2). The Court…
Societe Pour Loeuvre et la Memoire Dantoine de Saint Exupery – Succession De Saint Exupery-Dagay v. Schedule A Does, No. 25 C 579, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Oct. 3, 2025) (Durkin, J.).
Judge Durkin denied a Schedule A defendant’s motion to dismiss trademark claims centering on “The Little Prince,” novella rejecting arguments under Fed.
Tee Turtle LLC v. Schedule A Does, No. 25 C 2910, Slip Op. (N.D. Ill. Oct. 9, 2025) (Coleman, J.)
Judge Coleman denied default judgment and dismissed Tee Turtle’s Schedule A case for lack of personal jurisdiction pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(2) after the plaintiff failed to offer evidence of even a…
POET Research, Inc. v. Hydrite Chemical Company, No. 24-cv-01285 (N.D. Ill. Sept. 22, 2025) (Wood, J.).
Judge Wood granted defendant Hydrite’s motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in this patent infringement case involving methods for remediating toxins in biorefinery processes. The Court held that POET failed to establish minimum contacts with Illinois…
Blue Sphere, Inc. v. The Individuals, et al., No. 25 CV 004715, (N.D. Ill. Sept. 10, 2025) (Coleman, J.).
Judge Coleman dismissed this Schedule A trademark case for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding that plaintiff Blue Sphere failed to establish that defendants sold any counterfeit Lucky 13 products to Illinois residents. The Court held…
