Suit Filed to Protect Kanguru’s Defender Trademark
MILLIS, Mass. - Friday, July 27th 2012 [ME NewsWire]
-(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Kanguru today announced that it has filed a lawsuit
against Imation in the U.S. District Court for the District of
Massachusetts seeking restitution as well as to prevent Imation’s
continued use of the “Defender” trademark.
Kanguru, a division of Interactive Media Corporation, has been shipping
secure USB devices with the trademarked Defender name as part of the
Kanguru DefenderTM product portfolio since January 2008. The allegedly
infringing Imation Defender line has been shipping since mid-2010. In
addition, Imation acquired two of Kanguru’s competitors (MXI Security
and Ironkey) in 2011 and integrated the sales and product portfolios of
these two companies into the Imation Defender suite.
“Kanguru formally noticed Imation of the Defender trademark violation in
2010. That notice has been ignored for nearly two years,” said Don
Brown, president and CEO of Kanguru. “Considering the fact that the
Imation and Kanguru product sets with the Defender names are directly
competitive in a global market with many overlapping distribution
channels, this is an extremely damaging situation for Kanguru which must
be addressed to clarify confusion in the marketplace.”
Kanguru has spent substantial development and marketing funds to create
the Kanguru DefenderTM secure storage product brand. It is a best of
breed, robust security solution meeting a range of international
government certifications such as Common Criteria and FIPS 140-2.
Combined with the Kanguru Remote Management ConsoleTM, organizations can
deploy and remotely manage fleets of hardware encrypted USB flash
drives and hard drives through the internet to reduce costs and meet
various compliance requirements such as data breaches.
With its lawsuit, Kanguru is seeking injunctive relief to prevent
Imation from the continued use of the Imation Defender product name.
Kanguru is also seeking damages for lost opportunities and irreparable
damage to the Kanguru brand and confusion in the marketplace.
To learn more about the Kanguru DefenderTM USB security solution set, please visit www.kanguru.com.
Kanguru is a global leader of high-quality secure portable storage
devices, remote access solutions, and computer peripherals. Kanguru has
been providing government, enterprises, organizations and consumers with
the best in easy-to-use, certified, secure IT products and data storage
for more than 20 years. For more information on Kanguru, please visit
their website at www.kanguru.com.
Contacts
Kanguru Solutions
Don Wright, 508-376-4245
Marketing Manager
donw@kanguru.com
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