Daily Journal Names Callie Bjurstrom a Top IP Litigator in California

The publication reports that Bjurstrom tried and won two jury trials in 2017, including a December trial for client San Diego Comic Convention in a case against Dan Farr Productions. In that case, San Diego Comic-Con alleged that in 2013, Dan Farr Productions began promoting a Salt Lake Comic Con in Utah. San Diego Comic-Con has held its annual Comic-Con convention in San Diego each year since 1970 and holds trademarks for its logo and several permutations of the term “Comic-Con.” According to her client, the Salt Lake City event capitalized on several decades of its brand equity.

The nine-day trial “was about protecting the Comic-Con brand from opportunists,” Bjurstrom said. “The jury found in our favor on all three counts of trademark infringement.”

In another case, Bjurstrom represented HM Electronics Inc. in a trademark infringement and unfair competition dispute. HM Electronics alleged that competitor R.F. Technologies had been selling and rebranding HM Electronics’ headsets to pass them off as their own original product.

Bjurstrom obtained a preliminary injunction prohibiting R.F. Technologies’ unlawful and unfair practices. When R.F. Technologies failed to comply with numerous provisions of the injunction, Bjurstrom convinced the court to hold R.F. Technologies in contempt, and the court award HM Electronics compensatory sanctions in the form of attorneys' fees and costs, as well as disgorgement of its profits.