Civil Litigation
May 24, 2023
BNSF mark suit against airline startup moved to LA
Represented by attorneys at Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC in Fort Worth, BNSF Railway Co. filed a lawsuit last fall accusing Float Alaska’s website of unlawfully displaying a “Northern Pacific” logo to promote its upcoming airline company called Northern Pacific Airways.
A federal judge transferred from Texas to California a trademark lawsuit between BNSF Railway Co., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway operating as one of North America’s most profitable rail companies, and an airline startup in Alaska.
Float Alaska IP LLC does not maintain enough business contacts in Texas “to render them essentially at home in the forum state,” U.S. District Judge Mark T. Pittman of the Northern District of Texas wrote i...
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