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Nature of Suit Code: 840
Nature of Suit: Trademark
Cause of Action: 15:1114 Trademark Infringement

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

BMW OF NORTH AMERICA, LLC, et al.,

Plaintiffs,

CASE NO. 08 CV 0171 JM (WMc)

ORDER GRANTING JOINT

MOTION FOR ENTRY OF AND

ENTERING CONSENT

JUDGMENT AS TO

DEFENDANTS EUROTECH

WHEELS, LLC AND EUROTECH

RIMS, LLC

vs.

EUROTECH WHEELS, LLC, et al.,

Defendants.

The parties filed a joint motion for entry of consent judgment as to Defendants Eurotech

Wheels, LLC, and Eurotech Rims, LLC. (Doc. no. 29.) Pursuant to the joint motion and for good

cause shown, the court hereby GRANTS the joint motion and issues the following ORDER:

This matter having been opened to the Court upon the Complaint of Plaintiffs BMW of

North America, LLC and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (collectively, “BMW”) against

Defendants Eurotech Wheels, LLC, Eurotech Rims, LLC (collectively, “Eurotech”), Ryan

Moalemi and Joshua Moalemi alleging trademark infringement under the Federal Trademark Act

(the “Lanham Act”), 15 U.S.C. § 1114 and the common law of California; unfair competition and

false designation of origin under 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) and under the common law of California;

trademark counterfeiting under 15 U.S.C. § 1114(1); unfair competition under Cal. Bus. & Profs.

Code § 17200 et seq.; and as to Eurotech, design patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §271;

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Eurotech, having allegedly advertised and sold wheels in violation of BMW trademark and

design patent rights; 

Eurotech, having represented and warranted that its only warehouses for wheels that fit

BMWs are three located at 6350 Nancy Ridge Road, Suite #104, San Diego, CA; and that it has no

parent, subsidiary, or affiliated businesses of any kind that are involved in wheels for BMWs;

Eurotech, having represented and warranted that its total profits on challenged wheel

designs are $20,000 and $10,000, respectively; and that its total profits on wheels bearing BMW’s

Roundel or M-stripes logo are $20,000 and $10,000, respectively;

Eurotech, without admitting any liability, and expressly denying same, solely to avoid the

expense and distraction of protracted litigation, and wishing to settle its dispute with BMW

amicably;

The parties having acknowledged the jurisdiction of this Court over them and the subject

matter hereof; and

With the consent of BMW and Eurotech, and for good cause, IT IS DECLARED AND

HEREBY ADJUDGED that:

This Court has jurisdiction over the subject matter hereof; 

BMW has extensively used and advertised its “Roundel” logo, M-Stripes logo and “BMW”

word mark in connection with its business of designing, manufacturing, distributing, offering for

sale and selling motor vehicles and wheels; 

BMW is the exclusive owner of valid and subsisting federal trademark registrations,

including incontestable trademark registrations for its BMW “Roundel” logo, M-Stripes logo and

“BMW” word mark (see Exhibit A hereto), and that BMW’s Roundel logo and “BMW” word

mark are famous; and

BMW AG is the owner of various valid and lawfully issued United States Design Patents

for designs of vehicle wheels, including but not limited to U.S. Design Patent Nos. 515,491;

514,999; 504,382; 493,404; 470,093; 532,358; 558,114; 560,585; 528,962; and 449,028

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(collectively, the “BMW design patents”) (see Exhibit B), and BMW NA is the licensee of said

patents in the United States.

1. Eurotech, its affiliates, agents, servants, employees, representatives, successors,

assigns, attorneys-in-fact, and all those persons in active concert or participation with them who

receive actual notice of this Consent Final Judgment by personal service or otherwise, including

but not limited to Ryan Moalemi and Joshua Moalemi, and each of them, be and hereby are

permanently enjoined and restrained from:

A. Ordering, accepting orders for, accepting shipment or delivery of,

warehousing, manufacturing, importing, advertising or displaying (on the Internet or

otherwise), marketing, promoting, offering for sale, selling or otherwise distributing, any

wheels depicting, bearing, or in connection with BMW’s Roundel or M Stripes logo

(whether standing alone or on a wheel center cap or other tangible item), or any colorable

imitation thereof; 

B. Depicting BMW’s Roundel or M stripes logo, or any other BMW logo, in

Eurotech’s advertising, or making any trademark use of the “BMW” word mark, or

colorable imitation thereof on or in connection with advertising, offering for sale,

displaying, selling, or otherwise distributing wheels, including but not limited to using the

phrase “BMW wheels” or the like in connection with its Internet- or other advertising or

sales. Metatags, keywords or keyword advertising may not include the phrase “BMW

wheels,” “BMW rims,” “M3 wheels,” “M3 rims,” “328 wheels,” “328 rims” or the like,

and may not otherwise create a likelihood of confusion as to any connection between

BMW and Eurotech, or as to the source, sponsorship, or approval of BMW’s or Eurotech’s

goods. Eurotech shall cancel its registration of www.eurotechbmw.com and shall cease

and desist from registering or using any domain name containing “BMW” or any other

BMW Group mark;

C. Any trademark use of any other BMW trademark or colorable imitation

thereof; 

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D. Doing any other act or thing, directly or indirectly, that is 1) likely to

confuse, mislead, or deceive others into believing that Eurotech is connected with,

affiliated with, sponsored by, licensed by, or approved by BMW, or that Eurotech’s

product or services are sponsored, licensed or approved by BMW; or that is 2) likely to

dilute BMW’s Roundel logo or “BMW” word mark;

E. Manufacturing, importing, ordering, accepting orders for, accepting

shipment or delivery of, warehousing, advertising, displaying, marketing, promoting,

offering for sale, selling, trading, disposing of for commercial gain, or otherwise

distributing the wheel models identified in Exhibit C hereto, or any and all other wheels

that are covered by the BMW U.S. Design Patent Nos. 515,491; 514,999; 504,382;

493,404; 470,093; 532,358; 558,114; 560,585; 528,962; and 449,028.

2. Eurotech may make a “fair use” or “nominative use” textual reference, in the

identical font, format, size, and color as, and no more prominently than the surrounding text, to

“BMW” or to other BMW word marks solely to communicate truthfully that certain Eurotech

wheels identified prominently as Eurotech wheels and/or by their third party supplier “fit BMWs”

or are “for BMWs,” or fit or are for specific BMW models (such as the M3). No BMW word mark

may appear in any of Eurotech’s advertised product or service names.

3. Eurotech shall, within thirty (30) days of entry of this Consent Final Judgment,

notify in writing, with a copy to BMW, any and all third parties with which Eurotech has placed

advertisements using BMW’s Roundel logo, M-Stripes logo or trademark use of the “BMW” word

mark, that such usage in advertisements must be removed immediately.

4. Eurotech shall, within thirty-five (35) days of entry of this Consent Final Judgment,

through a duly authorized officer or director, certify in a sworn written statement that it has

complied with and completed those actions ordered by paragraphs 1 and 3 herein.

5. This Court shall retain jurisdiction of this matter and over the parties thereto for the

purpose of enforcing the terms of this Consent Final Judgment. The parties acknowledge that a

breach of this Consent Final Judgment by Eurotech would result in immediate and irreparable

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injury to BMW, that it would be difficult or impossible to establish the full monetary value of such

damage, and that BMW would be entitled to reimbursement of its reasonable attorney’s fees and

costs. 

6. Eurotech shall immediately provide a copy of this Consent Final Judgment to any

and all of its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, owners, officers, directors, partners,

employees, agents, servants, representatives, successors, and assigns.

7. Eurotech shall wire $25,000.00 to BMW AG in two installments, the first

immediately for $15,000 and the second by August 27, 2008 for $10,000, in care of the Howrey

LLP General Escrow account at Citibank FSB Washington, DC, account number 3700-5235,

routing number 254070116, identifying on the wire transfer instructions that Eurotech is the party

sending the wire. 

8. Within ten days of the entry of this Judgment, Eurotech shall identify, in writing

and with specificity, each of its sources, by company name and address, telephone number,

principal individual contact, shipper, broker or other purchasing agent, and port of entry, for each

of its wheels a) identified in Exhibit C hereto or otherwise covered by Section 1 E above. 

Eurotech shall also provide representative transactional documents sufficient to identify each of its

different sources of such wheels.

9. In accordance with § 34 of the Federal Trademark Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1116, the Clerk

of the Court shall notify the Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks of the entry of this Consent

Final Judgment who shall enter it upon the records of the United States Patent and Trademark

Office.

10. There being no just reason for delay, the Clerk of this Court is hereby directed,

pursuant to Rule 54(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to enter this Consent Final

Judgment forthwith.

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The parties have consented to the entry of the foregoing Consent Final Judgment and waive

any and all rights of appeal.

The Clerk of Court is instructed to close the file.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

DATED: July 25, 2008

 Hon. Jeffrey T. Miller

 United States District Judge

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