Case: Trademarks/Infringement (E.D. Mich.)

The motion to dismiss of a commercial loan broker, in a commercial real estate lender’s trademark action against the broker, was denied by a federal district court in Michigan. The court noted that the broker invited the court to comb through hundreds of pages of records to resolve a fact dispute about the first use of the lender’s marks, but the broker had not made any plausible argument that the facts alleged within the four corners of the complaint are in any way insufficient to state a claim for infringement under federal or state law. The court held that the ...