Blake v. Professional Coin Grading Service

MEMORANDUM

YOUNG, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This is a case of an attorney who claims that he has discovered a method to grade the “eye appeal” of coins. Duane C. Blake (“Blake”) is a coin collector and inventor of this method, which he called the “axial ultimate refractory angle of the coin” (“AURA System” or “AURA”). Blake sought to promote the AURA System with Professional Coin Grading Service (“Professional Grading”), Collectors Universe, Inc. (“Universe”), and its competitor Numismatic Guaranty Corporation of America (“Numismatic”) (collectively, the “Defendants”). During initial talks…