United States Ninth Circuit

In a trademark infringement action involving the enzyme-based dietary supplement Wobenzym, the District Court's preliminary injunction requiring Defendant to cease selling a dietary supplement is affirmed in part, where Defendant did not meet its burden to prove that Plaintiff ceased production of the supplement; but vacated in part, where a District Court must find a substantial risk of danger to the public or other special circumstances in order to enter an interlocutory order recalling a product in a trademark infringement case.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/20/2008
• Decided 07/02/2009
• Published 07/02/2009

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge:, Before J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, SIDNEY R. THOMAS, and SUSAN P. GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Maria Salapska, Law Offices of Maria Salapska, PLLC, Paul M. Levine, McCarthy Holthus Levine, Paul F. Eckstein and Karin S. Aldama, Perkins Coie Brown & Bain, PA, Phoenix, AZ, for the appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Paul F. Donahue, K & L Gates LLP, Jason M. Marks, Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP, Chicago, IL, Debra A. Winiarski, Phoenix, AZ, for the appellee.