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WITTMANN PATCH v. STAR PATCH

by Pamela Chestek • July 25, 2012 • trademark

I reported in the past about a dispute over the WITTMANN PATCH mark for a surgical device invented by Mark Wittmann. The case arose out of a business relationship that went bad. The court held on a preliminary injunction that plaintiff Starsurgical owned the WITTMANN PATCH mark and that Wittmann had to cease using...
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Surprise – Wittmann Can’t Call His Product “Wittmann”

by Pamela Chestek • June 9, 2011 • trademark

This is kind of a no-brainer of an ownership case. I’m blogging it more for the sake of completeness than anything else.Defendant Dietmar Wittmann, an employee of the Medical College of Wisconsin, invented a surgical patch for abdominal surgery. He assigned the rights to the patch (the case doesn’t say exactly what rights, but...
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