Woodland Tools Inc. v. Fiskars Brands, Inc.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN FISKARS FINLAND OY AB, and FISKARS BRANDS INC., Plaintiffs, v. OPINION and ORDER WOODLAND TOOLS INC., LUMINO, INC., 22-cv-540-jdp ROSS GUNDLACH, VANCE KOCH, and STEPHANIE COTA, Defendants. This case is a battle between competitors in the hand-held gardening tool market. The plaintiffs are Fiskars Finland Oy Ab and Fiskars Brands Inc., of orange-handled scissors fame. Defendant Woodland Tools, Inc. is the upstart. Fiskars says that Woodland, through an affiliated company, defendant Lumino, Inc., recruited three Fiskars’s…