Chubby style Bottles Legal action from chubby gorilla

[Ecigbase]

Hi as anyone used or using chubby style bottles from china , lubrisolv , Ibottles
i have had a strange letter today from solicitors about using them apparently its intellectual property of chubby gorilla ive attached it what do you think

 

[MrDJ]

Someone has got to be taking the piss here.
If they are sold by a supplier and there is no disclaimer saying that these cannot be resold then bollox to it I say [emoji6]

 

[Ecigbase]

Someone has got to be taking the piss here.
If they are sold by a supplier and there is no disclaimer saying that these cannot be resold then bollox to it I say [emoji6]

Thats what i was thinking

 

[MrDJ]

earlier reply was on phone at work.
are you a shop, a online supplier or just a diy'er that sells to friends and family.
are you using labels similar to chubby.

they are a legit solicitors so dont know what else to suggest.

 

[Ecigbase]

earlier reply was on phone at work.
are you a shop, a online supplier or just a diy'er that sells to friends and family.
are you using labels similar to chubby.

they are a legit solicitors so dont know what else to suggest.

We are a small ecig shop making short-fill e liquids been selling ecig stuff since 2012 only run by me and the wife and started using the bottles from lubrisolve and i bottles dont really understand why me take on the distributor , we dont market them as chubby gorilla bottles at all

 

[Simon G]

http://www.chubbygorilla.com/product.html

Looks they have patent pending on the bottle designs

 

[MrDJ]

oh dear. it looks like time to change bottles then.
sounds like someone has bought or seen them and passed on the info to chubby.
might be an idea to take the letter seriously then

 

[Badboybez]

http://www.chubbygorilla.com/product.html

Looks they have patent pending on the bottle designs

Yeah, saw that earlier.
None of the bottles on their website are actually described as "Chubby Gorilla" bottles though.
Most of them see to resemble unicorn bottles.
As someone said earlier they are a legit legal firm, so you can't just ignore it.

Personally the two things I would do are.

Contact Baker & McKenzie, and explain the nature of your business, in that you are merely reselling bottles from a UK supplier, and what aspect of Chubby Gorilla Intellectual Property rights they believe you are breaching.

Contact both Lubrisolve, and I Bottles to make them aware of the situation, and ask for their comments.

Regards badboybez

 

[Simon G]

Yeah, saw that earlier.
None of the bottles on their website are actually described as "Chubby Gorilla" bottles though.
Most of them see to resemble unicorn bottles.
As someone said earlier they are a legit legal firm, so you can't just ignore it.

Personally the two things I would do are.

Contact Baker & McKenzie, and explain the nature of your business, in that you are merely reselling bottles from a UK supplier, and what aspect of Chubby Gorilla Intellectual Property rights they believe you are breaching.

Contact both Lubrisolve, and I Bottles to make them aware of the situation, and ask for their comments.

Regards badboybez

yeah, I dunno what the deal is obviously ... I'm not a legal expert.

The brand is chubby gorilla so technically they are all chubby gorilla bottles, I suppose.

I guess we'll hear more if they are seriously cracking down on copies of their bottle designs? ... it all seems a bit odd but who knows..

 

[Ment]

I don't see how you could patent a plain bottle.

The name, yes, and If it was designed like a logo or something then I could understand it, but in this case the only difference between these bottles and any others are the proportions, and you can't patent proportions.