Box Acquisitions (aka Box Partners) vs. BOX Packaging Products, LLC
On 3/26/2014, the District Judge Charles P. Kocoros granted summary judgement in its entirety to
BOX Packaging Products, LLC; Jamil Packaging Corporation and David M. Diroll pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56.
Jamil Packaging Corporation was a significant customer of Box Partners for several years. When David M. Diroll of JPC bought the domain name boxpackaging.com , for it's rich key words to help promote the jamilpackaging.com website which was hosted by Box Partners and orders filled by them, Box Partners a much larger company tried to force David M. Diroll to give up the boxpackaging.com domain name which Mr. Diroll refused.
Subsequently, the owners of Box Partners decided to cancel the jamilpackaging.com registration leaving JPC with no website and stranding several website customers without supply. Thus severing ties with Jamil Packaging all together. Box Partners proceeded to use their power as a larger corporation and try to bully Box Packaging Products, LLC, Jamil Packaging Corp., and David M. Diroll by filing a lawsuit of 7 different counts; from Trademark Infringement to Cybersquatting.
The courts said: "The heart of this trademark infringement case is not difficult to ascertain. Approaching summary judgment with great caution, this Court finds the core issue as being whether “Box Packaging” is a protectable trademark or whether it lacks protection because it is a descriptive phrase with no acquired secondary meaning."
After more than two years of dispute, lawyers fees, meetings in front of the judge, justice has finally been served.
