Court sides with Coachella in Filmchella dispute
The name of Robert Simms' fledgling California film festival is sufficiently similar to cause "irreparable injury" to Coachella, a US judge has found
News By | 12 October 2017
A California court has ruled in favour of Coachella Music Festival in its trademark spat with film festival Filmchella, granting a preliminary injunction against the latter after finding its name is liable to cause “consumer confusion” with the long-running Indio event.
In a complaint filed with the district court of central California in August, lawyers representing Coachella and its promoter, Goldenvoice, accused Filmchella founder Robert Trevor Simms and up to 20 other “John Doe” defendants of servicemark infringement, false…
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