Montblanc-Simplo GMBH v. Staples, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WOODLOCK, District Judge.

The plaintiff is the manufacturer of high quality and highly priced writing instruments. The defendant is an office supply superstore chain that sells the plaintiffs instruments in an altered form, having purchased them from a distributor that purchases overseas and then scrapes off the serial numbers and a certain trademark. The plaintiff seeks a preliminary injunction under trademark law, barring the defendant from selling the altered instruments. The defendant contends that at most notice — which it contends it already provides — is sufficient…