Press Liberate: New Logo EBDESIGN Introduced in Reaction to VPR Lawsuit

(Dallas, Mar.1st, 2023) On Thursday, February twenty third, we have been upset to be informed that within the ongoing trademark infringement dispute with VPR Manufacturers, LP (VPR), the US District Courtroom for the Southern District of Florida granted VPR’s movement for a initial injunction requiring our companions to halt the gross sales of our ELFBAR-branded merchandise in the US, and denied our movement to complement the file for that movement with favorable shopper survey proof that we got in fresh weeks in regards to the probability of shopper confusion between our model and that of VPR.

Upon studying of this order, we instantly took motion to attraction the district court docket’s initial injunction order to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. We’ve got additionally asked that the district court docket keep its order pending attraction. One among our vendors additionally has filed a Petition for Cancellation of VPR’s ELF trademark registration with the US Patent and Trademark Place of job’s Trademark Trial and Enchantment Board.

In October 2022, VPR filed this lawsuit in opposition to our model and a number of other vendors, alleging each trademark infringement of its registered ELF trademark and patent infringement. VPR has filed a large number of complaints in opposition to producers and vendors of disposable vaping merchandise over the last two years claiming infringement of the asserted patent, regularly brushing aside the ones fits voluntarily when challenged at the deserves or settling its claims for somewhat small quantities.

We’ve got vigorously defended our felony place on this topic and feature maintained an ongoing energetic verbal exchange with our trade companions, either one of which we plan to proceed as we transfer ahead.

Even though we’re upset with the district court docket’s initial order, we personal a U.S. trademark registration for the unique bubble and flower design mark, which is well known to our customers, and we will be able to proceed to give you the similar merchandise bearing this registered design mark. To safeguard the pursuits of our customers and companions, we’ve made up our minds to release a brand new model known as EBDESIGN for those merchandise, with the design mark proven above. We’re taking steps to offer protection to the EBDESIGN trademark in the US and somewhere else.

Our newly branded EBDESIGN merchandise proportion the similar options as our up to now branded merchandise. Please kindly give your reinforce to our ongoing model shift, which we’re assured shall be treated responsibly.

For the reason that U.S. is one in all our number one markets, EBDESIGN merchandise will proceed to provide selection, high quality, and accept as true with to our native consumers. We’re totally dedicated to persistently turning in top-notch merchandise and unequalled buyer reinforce.

The EBDESIGN Crew