One of Quarles & Brady's large, commercial industrial clients was faced with a massive rate increase from its local utility, amounting to tens of millions of dollars annually. As with most rate cases, public utilities provide evidence of the...
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Sometimes, avoiding litigation entails seeing the larger picture and realizing that adversaries may have more in common than they have differences. While representing a municipality in a dispute with its local utility, Quarles & Brady...
Quarles & Brady has ostensibly created the competitive energy market in the State of Illinois—by representing commercial suppliers of energy before they had a market in which to compete with utilities, helping to build the landscape to...
Major energy suppliers count on Quarles & Brady to help them with all aspects of project development. For example, one such client is engaged in developing a $3 billion facility, and we are assisting in all facets of the project, from...
Rick structured and implemented a strategy for significant U.S. tax savings through off-shore ownership of a multinational consumer product company’s intellectual property.
Rick negotiated celebrity brand licenses for a major U.S. home-furnishings manufacturer.
Just as the economy collapsed in 2008, Rick negotiated an exclusive big box retailer agreement for a consumer product manufacturer that significantly expanded its shelf space and grew its business while its competitors' businesses...
On behalf of a leading hardware manufacturer, the Quarles & Brady trademark team negotiated an exclusive sales agreement with a major big box retailer. The deal leveraged our client’s significant brand strength in its product category into...
Quarles & Brady represented multiple information technology clients in two suits involving claims of misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of non-compete agreements. These cases gave Quarles & Brady the opportunity to be one of the...
Quarles & Brady filed trade secret and Lanham Act litigation on behalf of a toy manufacturer after a potential acquisition partner misappropriated designs and confidential information. The Quarles & Brady team negotiated a settlement...
Quarles & Brady helped a large motion control and water management company obtain a preliminary injunction against a former employee working for a competitor for 18 months. Using computer forensics, Quarles & Brady was able to show that the...
Quarles & Brady represented a Fortune 500 manufacturer in trade secret litigation against a former CEO, CFO, and others who started a competing company. Following numerous depositions and related discovery, Quarles & Brady secured a...
In a significant and precedential decision upheld by the Seventh Circuit, Quarles & Brady obtained dismissal of the plaintiff's trade secrets claim due to the plaintiff's failure to sufficiently identify its trade secrets. This published...
Quarles & Brady represented an international industrial automation client in a matter against five former employees engaged in a conspiracy to steal confidential information and documents to start a competing business. Through extensive use of...
Quarles & Brady obtained an emergency injunction restricting a former sales manager of a major international consumer products company from using or disclosing confidential information and trade secrets, and compelling production of all computer...
Quarles & Brady successfully defended an injection mold manufacturer, and its owners, in a lawsuit involving claims of patent infringement, violations of the RICO Act, violations of the CFAA, misappropriation of trade secrets, and various other...
Quarles & Brady does not work only for large clients. We also
represent small businesses, often belonging to individuals and families. For
example, we recently helped a multi-generational family-owned business to
negotiate and execute on...
Representing Kos Pharmaceuticals, a publicly traded drug company, Rick successfully enforced Kos's well-known trademark ADVICOR against infringement by Andrx's ALTOCOR mark. Rick won a landmark victory on appeal, with the U.S. Court of...
Representing marketing services company Centiv Inc., Rick brought a preliminary injunction action against Boston-based Incentiv Systems for trademark infringement. The case settled prior to the hearing on preliminary injunction with the defendant...
Rick brought an action for infringement of our client's registered blue grip trademark by Vaughan & Bushnell, a competing manufacturer of hammers. The case settled with Vaughan & Bushnell agreeing to modify its product to obliterate...
Representing GNB, one of the nation's largest manufacturers of automotive batteries, Rick sued Sears for infringement of GNB's well known NATIONAL trademark. The case settled very favorably to GNB.
Rick won a temporary restraining order, permanent injunction and monetary relief for trademark and copyright infringement and unfair competition on behalf of Hanley-Wood, a publisher of trade and construction publications against vanity plaque...
Rick won a permanent injunction, contempt sanctions and monetary relief against L.L. Bean for trademark infringement on behalf of Chicago tanner Horween Leather Company.
In this preliminary injunction action for infringement of our client's registered infinity symbol trademark, Rick negotiated a settlement with the defendant agreeing to restrict its use of the infringing mark.
On behalf of industrial products manufacturer Peter Mangone, Inc., Rick brought a preliminary injunction action for trademark infringement, trade dress (product configuration) infringement and unfair competition. Following a hearing on the Motion...
Representing Serta, the leading mattress manufacturer in the United States, Rick brought an action for patent and trademark infringement against one of its biggest competitors. The action was settled when the defendant agreed to stop infringing and...
Rick won a consent judgment and monetary recovery (including attorneys fees) against fast food restaurant chain Gold Star Chili's infringing use of the BIG TEN trademark.
Rick argued a preliminary injunction motion and Seventh Circuit Appeal in the precedent-setting MARCH MADNESS infringement action against NCAA licensee GTE Vantage.
Rick won a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction against infringement of Lake Point Tower's CASTLES IN THE SKY trademark.
Rick won preliminary injunctions against use of the STIR CRAZY trademark by two yet-to-open restaurants in Chicago.
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