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$4.5 Million Awarded in Trademark Infringement and Telemarketing Fraud Suit

By Mark VB Partridge

Janet Marvel and Jared Solovay of Pattishall, McAuliffe in Chicago, obtained a judgment for $4.5 million from the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois on behalf of their client Medline Industries, Inc. in Medline Industries, Inc. v. Strategic Commercial Solutions, Inc., et al., 07 CV 2783.

Defendants Strategic Commercial Solutions and Mohammed Abukhalid were found to have violated the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, 15 U.S.C. § 6101 et seq., as well as committed trademark infringement by using Medline's name in connection with a fraudulent telemarketing scheme operated under the name Medline Savings.

Full post as published by Guiding Rights Blog on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).