SORENSEN v. WD-40 CO.

No. 14-3067.

792 F.3d 712 (2015)

Jeffrey SORENSEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WD-40 COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 11, 2015.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied July 14, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark J. Liss , Attorney, Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd., Vivek Jayaram , Attorney, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lisel M. Ferguson , Attorney, Kathleen A. Brown , Attorney, Heather A. Cameron , Attorney, Anthony J. Dain , Attorney, Procopio, Cory, Hargeaves & Savitch LLP, San Diego, CA, Robert A. Carson , Attorney, Gould & Ratner, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BAUER, FLAUM, and MANION, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff Jeffrey Sorensen is the founder and CEO of Inhibitor Technology Corporation, which produces a line of rust-inhibiting products containing a substance called volatile corrosion inhibitor ("VCI"). This line of products is branded with the federally registered trademark THE INHIBITOR. That word mark is owned by Sorensen...

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