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Date |
Document |
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July 23, 2025 |
COMPLAINT filed by Rip Technologies, LLC; Filing fee $ 405, receipt number AILNDC-23787848. Exhibit 1 - Trademarks (Exhibit 2 - Copyrights) |
2 |
July 23, 2025 |
SEALED DOCUMENT by Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC Schedule A to the Complaint 1 |
3 |
July 23, 2025 |
CIVIL Cover Sheet |
4 |
July 23, 2025 |
MOTION by Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC for leave to file certain documents under seal |
5 |
July 23, 2025 |
NOTIFICATION of Affiliates pursuant to Local Rule 3.2 by Rip Technologies, LLC |
6 |
July 23, 2025 |
Notice of Claims Involving Trademarks by Rip Technologies, LLC |
7 |
July 23, 2025 |
ATTORNEY Appearance for Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC by John Joseph Mariane, IV |
8 |
July 23, 2025 |
ATTORNEY Appearance for Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC by Ann Marie Sullivan (Sullivan, Ann Marie) |
9 |
July 23, 2025 |
ATTORNEY Appearance for Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC by Gouthami Vanam Tufts |
10 |
July 23, 2025 |
ATTORNEY Appearance for Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC by Alison K Carter |
July 24, 2025 |
CASE ASSIGNED to the Honorable John J. Tharp, Jr. Designated as Magistrate Judge the Honorable Daniel P McLaughlin. Case assignment: Random assignment. (Civil Category 2). CLERK'S NOTICE: Pursuant to Local Rule 73.1(b), a United States Magistrate Judge of this court is available to conduct all proceedings in this civil action. If all parties consent to have the currently assigned United States Magistrate Judge conduct all proceedings in this case, including trial, the entry of final judgment, and all post-trial proceedings, all parties must sign their names on the attached Consent To form. This consent form is eligible for filing only if executed by all parties. The parties can also express their consent to jurisdiction by a magistrate judge in any joint filing, including the Joint Initial Status Report or proposed Case Management Order. |
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11 |
July 24, 2025 |
MAILED Trademark report to Patent Trademark Office, Alexandria VA |
12 |
July 24, 2025 |
MAILED to plaintiff(s) counsel Lanham Mediation Program materials |
13 |
July 24, 2025 |
MAILED Copyright report to Registrar, Washington DC |
14 |
July 28, 2025 |
MINUTE entry before the Honorable John J. Tharp, Jr: By 8/1/2025, the plaintiff is required to file (1) a listing of all prior online trademark, copyright, or patent infringement cases (also known as "Schedule A" cases) filed in any court in the United States in which it was a plaintiff, and (2) a listing of any of the defendants included in the Schedule A in this case that the plaintiff has previously named as a defendant in any prior complaint or Schedule A case. Mailed notice |
15 |
July 29, 2025 |
MOTION by Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC for temporary restraining order |
18 |
July 29, 2025 |
MOTION by Plaintiff Rip Technologies, LLC for electronic service of process |
21 |
July 31, 2025 |
MINUTE entry before the Honorable John J. Tharp, Jr:Upon review of the plaintiff's Declaration 20 in response to the Court's 7/28/25 order 14, this case is dismissed without prejudice. The plaintiff acknowledges that all defendants included in the Schedule A in this case were originally named as defendants in case no. 25-cv-07497. It appears that in that case, after Judge Harjani sua sponte raised the issue of joinder, the plaintiff voluntarily amended its complaint to omit the defendants now named in this case rather than defend its decision to join 217 defendants in the same action and filed a new case joining almost all of the defendants originally named in the case before Judge Harjani. That is a form of forum shopping: filing a claim, dismissing that claim in anticipation of an adverse ruling, and then filing a new suit that presents the same claim before a different judge in an effort to avoid the anticipated adverse ruling. If the plaintiff wishes to pursue its claims against the defendants included in the Schedule A in this case, those claims must be asserted in the case in which they were originally presented. If joinder is deemed improper in that case, remedies such as severance may be available, but refiling the claims against 189 defendants in new cases until a case is assigned to a judge the plaintiff believes to be hospitable to joinder is not such a remedy. All future dates and deadlines are stricken; all pending motions are denied as moot. Civil case terminated. Mailed notice |
22 |
July 31, 2025 |
JUDGMENT Order Signed by the Honorable John J. Tharp, Jr on 7/31/2025. Mailed notice |
23 |
Aug. 1, 2025 |
MAILED Trademark report with certified copy of minute order dated 7/31/2025 to Patent Trademark Office, Alexandria VA |