Ripple Analytics’ Amended Claim Should Fail, Magistrate Says

Ripple Analytics Inc. failed to explain how it had a proprietary right in a trademark owned by its CEO, a federal magistrate judge concluded in recommending that the human resources software company shouldn’t get the chance to refile its unfair competition claims.

Ripple filed a trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit in 2020 against People Center Inc., operating as Rippling, over the Ripple mark. However, Judge Gary R. Brown, of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, ruled that Ripple had assigned its interest in the mark to its CEO Noah Pusey in 2018. Brown ...