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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1127 Trademark Infringement

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Koon Chun Hing Kee Soy & Sauce Factory, Ltd. v. America Food Int'l Corp, et al. 

[PROPOSED] PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION (DEFENDANT CHEONG) 

Case No. C 05-5127 MMC

TOWNSEND AND TOWNSEND AND CREW LLP 

MARC M. GORELNIK (State Bar No. 166833) 

ELIZABETH R. GOSSE (State Bar No. 215494) 

Two Embarcadero Center, 8th Floor 

San Francisco, California 94111 

Telephone: (415) 576-0200 

Facsimile: (415) 576-0300 

Attorneys for Plaintiff 

KOON CHUN HING KEE SOY & 

SAUCE FACTORY, LTD. 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

KOON CHUN HING KEE SOY & 

SAUCE FACTORY, LTD., a company 

organized under the laws of Hong Kong 

Plaintiff, 

v.

AMERICA FOOD INT'L CORP., a California 

corporation; KWONK CHIO CHEONG, a 

California resident, and CANTON HERB CO., 

a business organized under the laws of the State 

of California,

Defendants.

 Case No. C 05-5127 MMC 

PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 

(DEFENDANT CHEONG) 

 

This is a trademark counterfeiting action in which plaintiff Koon Chun Hing Kee Soy & Sauce 

Factory, Ltd. (“Koon Chun”) alleges that defendants distribute and sell counterfeits of Koon Chun's 

hoisin sauce food product. Koon Chun moved ex parte for an order of seizure, temporary restraining 

order, order to show cause re: preliminary injunction, and accelerated discovery. This Court granted 

Koon Chun's ex parte motion in an order dated December 13, 2005 (the "December 13 Order"). 

Defendant Kwonk Chio Cheong was served with the summons, complaint, and all other papers 

in this action – including the December 13 Order – on December 17, 2005. Pursuant to the December 

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13 Order, a hearing on the order to show cause re: preliminary injunction was held on December 28, 

2005. Defendant Cheong did not file an opposition to the order to show cause, nor did defendant 

Cheong appear at the hearing. 

Accordingly, FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN: 

1. Defendant Cheong, his agents, servants, employees, successors and assigns, his 

businesses and their officers, directors, principals, and all those acting in concert or participation with 

any of them (collectively "the Enjoined Parties") be, and they hereby are ENJOINED, pending a final 

disposition of this action, from: 

a) imitating, copying or making unauthorized use of the registered trademark KOON CHUN 

SAUCE FACTORY and Design (“Plaintiff’s Trademark”), including affixing, applying, 

or annexing or using Plaintiff’s Trademark in connection with any product, any designs, 

containers, labels, displays, signs, prints, packages, wrappers, receptacles, promotions, or 

advertisements bearing any simulation, reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable 

imitation of Plaintiff’s Trademark or any other false designation of origin, false description 

or representation, and from causing said products to enter into commerce, or causing or 

procuring the same to be transported or to be used in commerce, or delivering the same to 

any carrier to be transported or used in commerce; 

b) manufacturing, producing, distributing, importing, accepting for consignment, shipping, 

circulating, selling, offering for sale, advertising, promoting or displaying any product 

bearing any simulation, reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of Plaintiff’s 

Trademark and/or any other trademarks so similar as to be likely to cause confusion, to 

cause mistake, or to deceive; 

c) using any simulation, reproduction, counterfeit, copy or colorable imitation of Plaintiff’s 

Trademark or any terms confusingly similar thereto in connection with the importation, 

shipment, promotion, advertisement, display, sale, offering for sale, manufacture, 

production, circulation or distribution of any product; 

d) making any statement or representation or using any false designation of origin or false 

description (including, without limitation, any letters or symbols), or performing any act, 

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which can or is likely to lead the trade or public, or individual members thereof, to believe 

that any product manufactured, distributed or sold by defendants is in any manner 

associated or connected with the plaintiff, or is sold, manufactured, licensed, sponsored, 

approved or authorized by the plaintiff or comes from the same source as plaintiff’s goods, 

and from otherwise competing unfairly with plaintiff and injuring their business 

reputations;

e) engaging in any other activity constituting unfair competition with plaintiff, or constituting 

an infringement of Plaintiff’s Trademark, or any of plaintiff’s rights in or to use or to 

exploit said trademark, or constituting any dilution of Plaintiff’s Trademark, reputation or 

good will; 

f) destroying, buying, selling or otherwise disposing of any merchandise bearing Plaintiff’s 

Trademark which is not manufactured by the plaintiff, and instead delivering the same to 

plaintiff or to an agent authorized to act on behalf of plaintiff for destruction;

g) destroying, transferring, secreting or otherwise disposing of any documents, books or 

records relating to the purchase, sale, importation or shipment of sauces or any 

merchandise bearing Plaintiff’s Trademark or any counterfeit or simulation thereof or any 

other trademark so similar so as to cause confusion, mistake or deception; 

h) removing, transporting, secreting, destroying, modifying, altering or otherwise affecting 

the counterfeit products or the records relating to them; 

i) passing off, inducing or enabling others to pass off any counterfeit product or products 

bearing Plaintiff’s Trademark or other trademarks so similar as to cause confusion; and 

j) assisting, aiding or abetting any other person or business entity in engaging in or 

performing any of the activities referred to herein. 

2. Within three calendar days of the service of this order on defendant Cheong, defendant 

Cheong shall: 

a) deliver to plaintiff’s representative for sequestration and then destruction all packages, 

containers, products, merchandise, goods, labels, signs, bottles, prints, wrappers, overlays 

and all advertisements which are, which embody, or which contain the counterfeit 

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trademarks used in connection with defendants' counterfeiting activities or any other 

reproduction, copy, counterfeit or colorable imitation of the trademarks of plaintiff and all 

plates, molds, matrices, and other means for making the same; and, further ordering 

defendants to deliver to plaintiff’s representatives all goods and items which are the subject 

of the instant action for sequestration and then destruction; 

b) to supply plaintiff with a complete list of the persons from whom defendants purchased and 

to whom they sold their counterfeit products or any other product which bears or is sold 

under counterfeit trademarks or any other trademark so similar to Plaintiff’s Trademark as 

to cause confusion, mistake or deception; to supply plaintiff with complete records 

concerning any and all transactions related to the goods which are the subject matter of the 

complaint, including but not limited to all records of purchase, transaction, financing, sale 

and distribution of said goods; and to supply plaintiff with the location of any warehouse or 

other facility at which goods bearing Plaintiff’s Trademark, or any other trademark so 

similar to Plaintiff’s Trademark as to cause confusion, mistake or deception are stored. 

Plaintiff previously posted a bond in the amount of $5,000 pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 65. No 

further bond is required. 

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: December 29, 2005 ____________________________________ 

 United States District Judge 

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