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

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA 

Acushnet Company, a Delaware 

corporation, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

Thomas Allan Thiede a/k/a Thomas 

Thiede a/k/a Tom Thiede a/k/a Tom 

T., an individual, d/b/a Showcase 

Studios d/b/a Showcase Companies 

d/b/a Showcase Architectural 

Products d/b/a Showcase Custom 

Homes, Inc. d/b/a 

Makeovermygaragedoor.com; 

Dualwin Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., 

an unincorporated foreign business 

entity, Does 1-5 and Does 7-10, 

Defendants. 

No. CV 12-02508-PHX-JAT 

ORDER 

[FILED UNDER SEAL] 

Pending before the Court is Plaintiff’s Application for Preliminary Injunction 

against Defendant Dualwin Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. 

I. BACKGROUND 

A. Plaintiff Acushnet Company (“Acushnet”) is the owner of all rights in and 

to the following trademarks protected by the following United States Federal 

Trademark Registrations: 

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Trademark Registration 

Number 

Registration 

Date Class(es)/Goods 

2,620,432 September 

17, 2002 

IC 28- Golf clubs and accessories, 

namely golf tees, golf gloves, golf 

bags, golf putters, golf drivers, 

golf woods, golf irons, golf green 

repair tools, golf club covers, and 

golf bag covers. 

SCOTTY 

CAMERON 2,525,024 January 1, 

2002 

IC 28 – Golf clubs and 

accessories thereof 

TITLEIST 934,406 May, 23, 

1972 

IC 28- Golf equipment 

comprising golf balls, golf clubs, 

golf bags, golf gloves and golf 

covers 

1,155,766 May 26, 

1981 

IC 28- Golf Equipment-Namely, 

Golf Balls, Golf Clubs and Golf 

Bags. 

3,376,961 February 5, 

2008 

IC 24 – Golf towels 

IC 25 – Clothing, namely, jackets, 

shirts, hats and visors 

IC 28 – Golf equipment, namely, 

golf putters, golf club head 

covers, golf club grips and divot 

tools 

TOUR RAT 4,189,312 August 14, 

2012 

IC 28 – Golf balls; golf putter 

covers 

These trademarks are registered in International Class 28 and are used in connection 

with the manufacture and distribution of, among other things, high quality golf club 

headcovers. Additionally, Acushnet is the owner of all common law rights in and to the 

JUNKYARD DOG and SCOTTY’S CUSTOM SHOP marks as associated with 

clothing, including shirts and golf club headcovers (the above-identified common law 

and registered marks shall collectively be referred to herein as the “Acushnet Marks”). 

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B. Plaintiff sells and otherwise distributes its respective high quality products, 

including golf club headcovers and clothing products, in the United States, in particular 

Arizona. Based on Plaintiff’s allegations, it appears Defendant has the requisite 

minimum contacts for personal jurisdiction. 

C. Defendant is Dualwin Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. 

D. Plaintiff has proffered sufficient evidence to show that Defendant has 

manufactured, advertised, promoted, offered for sale, and/or distributed, golf club 

headcovers and clothing products, including shirts, using labeling with counterfeits, 

reproductions, and/or colorable imitations of the Acushnet Marks. 

E. Defendant is not now, nor has it ever been, authorized or licensed to use, 

reproduce, or make counterfeits, reproductions, and/or colorable imitations of the 

Acushnet Marks, or to distribute or sell golf club headcovers and/or clothing products, 

including shirts, bearing counterfeits and infringing versions of the Acushnet Marks. 

F. Defendant Dualwin was served via email, as required by the Temporary 

Restraining Order, at the email address: dualwin@yahoo.cn as confirmed by the 

Certificate of Service on file with this Court; 

G. Defendant Dualwin has not filed any response to the Temporary 

Restraining Order or Plaintiff’s Application for Preliminary Injunction nor has 

Defendant Dualwin, or counsel on its behalf, contacted counsel for the Plaintiff in 

connection with this matter; 

H. The Court convened a hearing on Plaintiff’s Application for Preliminary 

Injunction against Defendant Dualwin on January 8, 2013 at which only counsel for 

Plaintiff appeared in order to present evidence in connection with Plaintiff’s Application 

for Preliminary Injunction. 

II. ANALYSIS 

Pursuant to the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq.) as amended by the 

Trademark Counterfeiting Act of 1984, Public Law 98-473, and Federal Rule of Civil 

Procedure 65, this Court is authorized to grant Plaintiff’s motion. In considering 15 

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U.S.C. § 1116(d)(4)(B) and the factors the Ninth Circuit has established for granting 

preliminary injunction relief, see Stormans, Inc. v. Selecky, 586 F.3d 1109, 1127 (9th 

Cir. 2009), the Court finds: 

A. Plaintiff has a very strong probability of proving at trial that consumers are 

likely to be confused by Defendant’s manufacturing, advertisement, promotion, sale, 

offer for sale, and/or distribution of golf club headcovers and clothing products, 

including shirts, bearing counterfeits, reproductions, and/or colorable imitations of the 

Acushnet Marks. 

B. Plaintiff is likely to suffer an immediate and irreparable injury if a 

preliminary injunction is not granted. It clearly appears from the following specific facts, 

as set forth in Plaintiff’s First Amended Complaint and the sworn Declarations on file, 

that immediate and irreparable loss, damage, and injury will result to Plaintiff and to 

consumers because: (1) Defendant has offered for sale golf club headcovers and clothing 

products, including shirts, bearing counterfeit and infringing trademarks in violation of 

Plaintiff’s rights; and (2) Plaintiff has well-founded fears that more counterfeit and 

infringing products bearing its trademarks will appear in the marketplace; that 

consumers may be misled, confused, and disappointed by the quality of these products, 

resulting in the consequent injury to Plaintiff’s reputation and goodwill; and that 

Plaintiff may suffer loss of sales for its genuine products. 

C. The balance of potential harm to Defendant if a preliminary injunction is 

issued is far outweighed by the potential harm to Plaintiff if it is not issued. 

D. The public interest favors issuance of the preliminary injunction in order to 

protect Plaintiff’s trademark interests and protect the public from being defrauded by the 

palming off of counterfeit goods as Plaintiff’s genuine goods. 

III. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION 

1. This Court has jurisdiction of the subject matter of all counts of this action 

and over all of the named parties hereto. 

2. Acushnet is the owner, and/or exclusive licensee, of the Acushnet Marks; 

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3. Defendant Dualwin and its respective officers, agents, servants, 

employees, and attorneys, and all persons in active concert and participation with them 

are hereby restrained and enjoined, pending termination of this action, from, 

intentionally and/or knowingly: 

A. manufacturing or causing to be manufactured, importing, 

advertising, or promoting, distributing, selling or offering to sell 

counterfeit and infringing goods; bearing the Acushnet Marks; 

B. using the Plaintiff’s Marks in connection with the manufacturing 

and/or sale of any unauthorized goods; 

C. using any logo, and/or layout which may be calculated to falsely 

advertise the services or products of the Defendant Dualwin as 

being sponsored by, authorized by, endorsed by, or in any way 

associated with the Plaintiff; 

D. using any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of 

the Acushnet Marks in connection with the publicity, promotion, 

sale or advertising of any goods sold by the Defendant Dualwin, 

including, without limitation, clothing, including shirts, and golf 

club headcovers; 

E. affixing, applying, annexing or using in connection with the sale of 

any goods, a false description or representation, including words or 

other symbols tending to falsely describe or represent the Defendant 

Dualwin’s goods as being those of the Plaintiff, or in any way 

endorsed by the Plaintiff; 

F. offering such goods in commerce; and from otherwise unfairly 

competing with the Plaintiff; 

G. secreting, destroying, altering, removing, or otherwise dealing with 

the unauthorized products or any books or records which contain 

any information relating to the importing, manufacturing, 

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producing, distributing, circulating, selling, marketing, offering for 

sale, advertising, promoting, renting or displaying of all 

unauthorized products which infringe the Acushnet Marks; and 

H. effecting assignments or transfers, forming new entities or 

associations or utilizing any other device for the purpose of 

circumventing or otherwise avoiding the prohibitions set forth in 

subparagraphs (A) through (G). 

4. Upon receipt of notice of this Order, Paypal, Inc. (“Paypal”) and any 

related companies and affiliates, shall, to the extent not already done, immediately 

restrain and limit all accounts controlled and/or used by the Defendant Dualwin Sporting 

Goods Co., Ltd., dualwin@yahoo.cn, and/or xihaianshancheng@126.com; 

5. Paypal shall further, to the extent not already done, within five (5) days of 

receiving this Order, provide Plaintiff’s counsel with all data which identifies the 

accounts frozen as well as an accounting of the funds in the restrained accounts. Such 

restraint of the accounts and the disclosure of the related financial institution account 

information shall be made without prior notice to the account owners or the financial 

institutions until further order of this Court; 

6. Any financial institutions, and any related companies and affiliates, 

including those identified by Paypal in connection with Paragraphs 4 and 5 above (the 

“Financial Institutions”), which hold funds on behalf of or derived from the Defendant 

Dualwin’s business, upon receipt of notice of this Order, shall immediately, to the extent 

not already done, restrain and limit all accounts controlled and/or used by the Defendant 

Dualwin Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., dualwin@yahoo.cn, and/or 

xihaianshancheng@126.com; 

7. The Financial Institutions shall further, to the extent not already done, 

within five (5) days of receiving this Order, provide Plaintiff’s counsel with all data 

which identifies the accounts restrained as well as an accounting of the funds in the 

restrained accounts. Such restraint of the accounts and the disclosure of the related 

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financial institution account information shall be made without prior notice to the 

account owners or the financial institutions until further order of this Court; 

8. This Preliminary Injunction shall remain in effect during the pendency of 

this action, or until such further date as set by the Court or stipulated to by the parties. 

VI. CONCLUSION

Based on the foregoing: 

IT IS ORDERED granting Plaintiff’s Application for Preliminary Injunction. 

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Plaintiff’s Motion to Unseal Part of the Court 

File (Doc. 32) is denied. Instead, the seal on the entirety of this case is hereby removed, 

and the Clerk is instructed to return this file to the public portion of the Court records. 

Dated this 8th day of January, 2013. 

Copies to only: Counsel for Plaintiff and Defendants 

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