Curtis v. Shinsachi Pharmaceutical Inc.

ORDER GRANTING IN PART PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT [24]

OTIS D. WRIGHT, II, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Olga Curtis and Defendants ShinSachi Pharmaceutical Inc. and Seung-woo Shin are competitors in the rather niche tattoo-numbing-cream market. Curtis has purchased products for resale from Defendants in the past and also sold her own products under the names TAT-TOONUMB, SUPERNUMB, AND DEEPNUMB.

But after Curtis started using those marks, Defendants registered them with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and then sent Curtis’s service providers takedown…