Even pretty LED lights can lead to litigation. (Photo by Matt Hunt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Torchstar Corporation sells LED products through Amazon AMZN +3% . Torchstar brought a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington alleging that a competing seller of the same products, Hyatech, Inc., had basically copied Torchstar’s Amazon sales pages in violation of copyright and other laws. For its part, Hyatech claimed that Torchstar’s sales pages did not qualify for copyright protection and that it was Torchstar that was trying to illegally destroy Hyatech as its competitor through the litigation process. Hyatech asserted a counterclaim against Torchstar claiming that Torchstar had made a false claim of copyright infringement to Amazon including asserting infringement resulting from product images taken by Hyatech’s own photographer. Hyatech also alleged that Torchstar did not register its copyrights with the U.S. Copyright Office until after the litigation commenced. So, to back up for a second, Torchstar sued Hyatech, and Hyatech countersued Torchstar. Nothing unusual to see here, welcome to commercial litigation. But now it gets interesting. Instead of fighting Hyatech’s claims on the merits, Torchstar instead filed a special motion to strike under Washington’s Uniform Public Expression […]
Squabbling Between Business Competitors Leads To UPEPA Motion In Washington State
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