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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

DISTRICT OF OREGON

PORTLAND DIVISION

ADIDAS AMERICA, INC., a Delaware 

corporation; and ADIDAS AG, a foreign 

entity,

Plaintiffs,

v.

ATHLETIC PROPULSION LABS, 

LLC, a California limited liability 

company,

Defendant.

No. 3:16-cv-00415

COMPLAINT

(Trademark Infringement, Unfair 

Competition, Trademark Dilution, and 

Deceptive Trade Practices)

DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

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Plaintiffs adidas America, Inc. and adidas AG (collectively, “adidas”) state the following 

for their Complaint against Defendant Athletic Propulsion Labs, LLC (“APL” or “Defendant”).

I. INTRODUCTION

1. For decades, adidas has manufactured, sold, and promoted footwear and apparel 

bearing its famous and distinctive Three-Stripe trademark (the “Three-Stripe Mark”). adidas 

owns numerous incontestable federal trademark registrations for its Three-Stripe Mark for 

footwear and apparel, and adidas has invested millions of dollars building its brand in connection 

with the Three-Stripe Mark.

2. Despite adidas’s longstanding rights in the famous Three-Stripe Mark, APL is 

designing, sourcing, manufacturing, distributing, marketing, promoting, offering for sale, and/or 

selling footwear bearing confusingly similar imitations of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark, examples 

of which are shown below. 

APL’s footwear is not manufactured by adidas, nor is APL connected or affiliated with, or 

authorized by, adidas in any way. APL’s merchandise is likely to cause confusion, deceive the 

public regarding its source, and dilute and tarnish the distinctive quality of adidas’s Three-Stripe 

Mark. 

3. This is an action at law and in equity for trademark infringement and dilution, 

unfair competition, and deceptive trade practices arising under the Trademark Act of 1946, 

15 U.S.C. §§ 1051, et. seq. (2009); the anti-dilution laws of several states; the fair business 

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practices and unfair and deceptive trade practices acts of several states; and the common law. 

Among other relief, adidas asks this Court to: (a) permanently enjoin APL from marketing or 

selling footwear bearing confusingly similar four-stripe imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark; 

(b) award adidas monetary damages and to treble any monetary damages award; (c) require APL 

to disgorge all profits from sales of the infringing footwear; and (d) award adidas punitive 

damages, attorneys’ fees, and costs.

II. PARTIES

4. Plaintiff adidas AG is a joint stock company organized and existing under the 

laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, having its office and principal place of business at 

Postach 11230, D-91072 Herzogenaurach, Federal Republic of Germany.

5. Plaintiff adidas America, Inc. is a corporation organized and existing under the 

laws of the State of Delaware, having its principal place of business at 5055 N. Greeley Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon 97217. adidas America, Inc. directs all U.S.-based operations on behalf of 

adidas AG, including sales, brand marketing, product marketing, product design, public 

relations, distribution, enforcement, and licensing of and for ADIDAS-branded merchandise, 

including goods bearing the distinctive Three-Stripe Mark. adidas AG and adidas America, Inc., 

as well as any predecessors or related entities, are collectively referred to as “adidas.”

6. On information and belief, Defendant Athletic Propulsion Labs, LLC is a 

California limited liability company, having its principal place of business at 9701 Wilshire 

Boulevard, Suite 1000, Beverly Hills, California 90212. 

III. JURISDICTION AND VENUE

7. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction under section 39 of the Lanham Act, 

15 U.S.C. § 1121, and under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1338. Subject matter jurisdiction over 

adidas’s related state and common law claims is proper pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1338 and 1367. 

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8. This Court has personal jurisdiction over APL because, on information and belief, 

(a) APL has marketed, distributed, offered for sale, and/or sold to persons within the State of 

Oregon, (b) APL regularly transacts and conducts business within the State of Oregon, and/or 

(c) APL otherwise has made or established contacts within the State of Oregon sufficient to 

permit the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

9. The District of Oregon is a proper venue pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b)(2) 

because a substantial part of the acts or omissions giving rise to adidas’s claims occurred in this 

District, and the harm being caused by APL’s acts or omissions is being inflicted upon adidas in this 

District.

IV. FACTS COMMON TO ALL CLAIMS FOR RELIEF

A. adidas’s Famous Three-Stripe Mark

10. adidas is currently, and for years has been, one of the world’s leading 

manufacturers of athletic footwear, sportswear, and sporting equipment. Over sixty (60) years 

ago, adidas first placed three parallel stripes on its athletic shoes, and the Three-Stripe Mark 

came to signify the quality and reputation of adidas footwear to the sporting world early in the 

company’s history. 

11. At least as early as 1952, adidas began using the Three-Stripe Mark on footwear 

sold in the United States and worldwide. The Three-Stripe Mark quickly came to signify the 

quality and reputation of adidas footwear. Examples of adidas footwear bearing the Three-Stripe 

Mark are depicted below, and pages from adidas catalogs featuring additional examples of 

footwear bearing the Three-Stripe Mark are attached as Exhibit 1.

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Ultra Boost adizero Boston Boost

Crazy 8 Retro Xeno Pro Model

Amplify

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12. adidas is the owner of a federal trademark registration, Reg. No. 1,815,956, issued 

by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) on January 11, 1994, for the ThreeStripe Mark, as depicted below, for “athletic footwear.”

Affidavits have been filed pursuant to Sections 8 and 15 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1058 

and 1065, and this registration is incontestable. A copy of the Certificate of Registration for this 

mark is attached as Exhibit 2.

13. adidas is the owner of a federal trademark registration, Reg. No. 1,833,868, issued 

by the PTO on May 3, 1994, for the Three-Stripe Mark, as depicted below, covering “athletic 

footwear.”

Affidavits have been filed pursuant to Sections 8 and 15 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1058 

and 1065, and this registration is incontestable. A copy of the Certificate of Registration for this 

mark is attached as Exhibit 3.

14. adidas is the owner of a federal trademark registration, Reg. No. 2,278,589, issued 

by the PTO on September 21, 1999, for the Three-Stripe Mark, as depicted below, covering 

“athletic footwear.”

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Affidavits have been filed pursuant to Sections 8 and 15 and the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1058 

and 1065, and this registration is incontestable. A copy of the Certificate of Registration for this 

mark is attached as Exhibit 4.

15. adidas is the owner of a federal trademark registration, Reg. No. 3,029,129, issued 

by the PTO on December 13, 2005, for the Three-Stripe Mark, as depicted below, covering 

“footwear.”

Affidavits have been filed pursuant to Sections 8 and 15 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1058 

and 1065, and this registration is incontestable. A copy of the Certificate of Registration for this 

mark is attached as Exhibit 5.

16. adidas is the owner of a federal trademark registration, Reg. No. 3,029,135, issued 

by the PTO on December 13, 2005, for the Three-Stripe Mark, as depicted below, covering 

“footwear.”

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Affidavits have been filed pursuant to Sections 8 and 15 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1058 

and 1065, and this registration is incontestable. A copy of the Certificate of Registration for this 

mark is attached as Exhibit 6.

17. adidas owns numerous additional trademark registrations, a number of which are 

incontestable, for the Three-Stripe Mark covering footwear and various items of apparel, 

including U.S. Reg. Nos. 870,136, 961,353, 2,016,963, 2,058,619, 2,278,591, 2,284,308, 

2,909,861, 2,999,646, 3,029,127, 3,063,742, 3,063,745, 3,087,329, 3,183,656, 3,183,663, and 

3,236,505. Copies of the Certificates of Registration for each of these marks are attached 

collectively as Exhibit 7.

18. Additionally, adidas owns federal registrations for verbal trademarks using the 

term “3 stripes” including THE BRAND WITH THE 3 STRIPES, Reg. No. 1,674,229, for “sport 

and leisure wear.” Affidavits have been filed pursuant to Sections 8 and 15 of the Lanham Act, 

15 U.S.C. §§ 1058 and 1065, and this registration is incontestable. A copy of the Certificate of 

Registration for this mark is attached as Exhibit 8.

19. adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark is well-known and famous and has been for many 

years. adidas has used the Three-Stripe Mark in connection with its frequent sponsorship of 

musical artists, including pop stars Katy Perry and Selena Gomez and iconic rappers B.o.B, 

Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams, and Kanye West. 

20. adidas also has used the Three-Stripe Mark in connection with its frequent 

sponsorship of athletic tournaments and organizations, as well as professional athletes and 

collegiate sports teams. For example, adidas has had longstanding relationships with the 

University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Nebraska, Arizona State University, 

the University of Louisville, Mississippi State University, and the University of Miami. Among 

many others, adidas sponsors (a) NFL stars Aaron Rodgers, DeMarco Murray, Jimmy Graham, 

Von Miller, Sammy Watkins, and Robert Griffin III; (b) NBA stars Tim Duncan, James Harden, 

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John Wall, Damian Lillard, and Derrick Rose; (c) baseball players Josh Harrison, Justin Upton, 

Kris Bryant, Carlos Gomez, Melvin Upton Jr., and James Shields; (d) professional golfer Sergio 

Garcia; and (e) internationally famous soccer players David Beckham and Lionel Messi. For 

decades, adidas also has sponsored the world-famous Boston Marathon, along with many other 

events, teams, and individuals.

21. The Three-Stripe Mark is nonfunctional, and the public recognizes and 

understands that the Three-Stripe Mark distinguishes and identifies adidas’s footwear. 

Unsolicited media coverage has referred to “the iconic adidas three stripes” (Brettman, Allan, 

“World Cup brings out the shoes, uniforms from Adidas, Nike,” The Oregonian, Feb. 17, 2014), 

adidas’s “trademark three-stripe sneakers” (Brettman, Allan, “Adidas lifts 2012 forecast as sales 

in China soar in Q1,” The Oregonian, May 1, 2012), “the Adidas stripes” (Brettman, Allan, 

“A $35 swoosh of genius,” The Oregonian, June 16, 2011), adidas’s “ubiquitous three stripes” 

(Brettman, Allan, “Going ‘All In’ against Nike,” The Oregonian, March 15, 2011), the 

“trademark three-stripe logo” (Pennington, Bill, “Belts That Do More Than Hold Up Pants,” 

New York Times, July 26, 2009), the “iconic three stripes” (“Game Time,” Footwear News, 

June 16, 2008), the “signature three stripes” (Moore, Booth, “Ringing endorsements; Form 

follows function with much Olympic wear, but fashion and funding are also at play,” L.A. Times, 

August 13, 2004), the “famous brand with the three stripes” (Whiting, Sam, “Must Have,” San 

Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2002), and the “legendary Adidas three stripes” (“Coty Inc.,” Brand 

Strategy, September 27, 1999). Copies of the above-referenced articles are attached collectively

as Exhibit 9.

22. For decades, adidas extensively and continuously has used and promoted the 

Three-Stripe Mark in connection with footwear and apparel. In recent years, annual sales of 

products bearing the Three-Stripe Mark have totaled in the billions of dollars globally and in the 

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hundreds of millions of dollars within the United States. The Three-Stripe Mark has achieved 

international fame and tremendous public recognition.

23. Since introducing its Three-Stripe Mark, adidas has spent millions of dollars 

promoting the mark and products bearing the mark. For example, in March 2011, adidas 

launched an advertising campaign in the United States “featuring Chicago Bulls guard Derrick 

Rose, rapper B.o.B and pop singer Katy Perry, among others,” that “highlights [adidas’s] imprint 

on the worlds of sports, music and fashion,” and “show[s] the breadth and depth of the Adidas 

brand.” A March 15, 2011, article from The Oregonian describing the advertising campaign is 

included within Exhibit 9. Similarly, adidas recently launched its “Sport 15” advertising 

campaign, which represents adidas’s biggest ad spend in the United States to date. The 

campaign features soccer superstar Lionel Messi, Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, and 

DeMarco Murray of the Philadelphia Eagles. A February 13, 2015, article from AdWeek

describing adidas’s Sport 15 advertising campaign is attached as Exhibit 10. 

24. As a result of adidas’s extensive use and promotion of the Three-Stripe Mark, 

adidas has built up and now owns extremely valuable goodwill that is symbolized by the mark. 

The purchasing public has come to associate the Three-Stripe Mark with adidas.

B. APL’s Unlawful Activities

25. In blatant disregard of adidas’s rights, APL has been designing, sourcing, 

manufacturing, distributing, marketing, promoting, offering for sale, and/or selling in interstate 

commerce footwear that bears confusingly similar imitations of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark. 

Specifically, APL has designed, sourced, manufactured, distributed, marketed, promoted, offered 

for sale, and/or sold footwear bearing four stripes, examples of which are shown below, in 

various colors (the “Infringing Footwear”):

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26. The Infringing Footwear bears four stripes in a manner likely to be confused with 

adidas’s famous Three-Stripe Mark.

27. On information and belief, APL had knowledge of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark 

when it began designing, manufacturing, sourcing, distributing, marketing, promoting, offering 

for sale, and/or selling the Infringing Footwear. On further information and belief, APL 

intentionally adopted and used confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark knowing 

that they would mislead and deceive consumers into believing that the footwear was produced, 

authorized, or licensed by adidas, or that the footwear originated from adidas. 

28. The Infringing Footwear distributed, offered for sale, and sold by APL is not 

manufactured by adidas, nor is APL associated, affiliated, or connected with adidas, or licensed, 

authorized, sponsored, endorsed, or approved by adidas in any way.

29. adidas used the Three-Stripe Mark extensively and continuously long before APL 

began offering for sale or selling the Infringing Footwear. 

30. The Infringing Footwear is similar to, and competes with, footwear sold by 

adidas, and the parties’ respective footwear is sold through overlapping channels of trade.

31. APL’s use of confusingly similar imitations of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark is 

likely to deceive, confuse, and mislead purchasers and prospective purchasers into believing that 

the footwear sold by APL is manufactured by, authorized by, or in some manner associated with 

adidas, which it is not.

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32. APL’s activities are likely to cause confusion before, during, and after the time of 

purchase because purchasers, prospective purchasers, and others viewing APL’s Infringing 

Footwear at the point of sale or on a wearer are likely—due to APL’s use of confusingly similar 

imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark—to mistakenly attribute the footwear to adidas. This is 

particularly damaging with respect to those people who perceive a defect or lack of quality in 

APL’s products. By causing a likelihood of confusion, mistake, and deception, APL is inflicting 

irreparable harm on the goodwill symbolized by the Three-Stripe Mark and the reputation for 

quality that it embodies.

33. On information and belief, APL continues to use confusingly similar imitations of 

the Three-Stripe Mark in connection with the sale of products that directly compete with those 

offered by adidas. APL began selling these imitations well after adidas had established 

protectable rights in the Three-Stripe Mark and well after the Three-Stripe Mark had become 

famous. 

34. On further information and belief, APL knowingly, willfully, intentionally, and 

maliciously adopted and used confusingly similar imitations of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark.

FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF

(Federal Trademark Infringement)

35. adidas repeats and incorporates by reference the allegations in the preceding 

paragraphs.

36. APL’s use of confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark is likely to 

cause confusion, deception, and mistake by creating the false and misleading impression that 

APL’s goods are manufactured or distributed by adidas, or are associated or connected with 

adidas, or have the sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of adidas.

37. APL has used marks confusingly similar to the Three-Stripe Mark in violation of 

15 U.S.C. §§ 1114 and 1125(a). APL’s activities have caused and, unless enjoined by this Court, 

will continue to cause a likelihood of confusion and deception of members of the trade and 

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public, and, additionally, injury to adidas’s goodwill and reputation as symbolized by the ThreeStripe Mark, for which adidas has no adequate remedy at law.

38. APL’s actions demonstrate an intentional, willful, and malicious intent to trade on 

the goodwill associated with the Three-Stripe Mark to adidas’s great and irreparable harm.

39. APL has caused and is likely to continue causing substantial injury to the public 

and to adidas, and adidas is entitled to injunctive relief and to recover APL’s profits, actual 

damages, enhanced profits and damages, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees under 15 U.S.C. 

§§ 1114, 1116, and 1117.

SECOND CLAIM FOR RELIEF

(Federal Unfair Competition)

40. adidas repeats and incorporates by reference the allegations in the preceding 

paragraphs.

41. APL’s use of confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark has caused 

and is likely to cause confusion, deception, and mistake by creating the false and misleading 

impression that APL’s goods are manufactured or distributed by adidas, or are affiliated, 

connected, or associated with adidas, or have the sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of 

adidas.

42. APL has made false representations, false descriptions, and false designations of 

its goods in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a). APL’s activities have caused and, unless enjoined 

by this Court, will continue to cause a likelihood of confusion and deception of members of the 

trade and public, and, additionally, injury to adidas’s goodwill and reputation as symbolized by 

the Three-Stripe Mark, for which adidas has no adequate remedy at law.

43. APL’s actions demonstrate an intentional, willful, and malicious intent to trade on 

the goodwill associated with the Three-Stripe Mark to the great and irreparable injury of adidas.

44. APL’s conduct has caused, and is likely to continue causing, substantial injury to 

the public and to adidas. adidas is entitled to injunctive relief and to recover APL’s profits, 

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actual damages, enhanced profits and damages, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees under 

15 U.S.C. §§ 1125(a), 1116, and 1117.

THIRD CLAIM FOR RELIEF

(State Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices)

45. adidas repeats and incorporates by reference the allegations in the preceding 

paragraphs.

46. APL has been and is passing off its goods as those of adidas, causing a likelihood 

of confusion or misunderstanding as to the source, sponsorship, or approval of APL’s goods, 

causing a likelihood of confusion as to APL’s affiliation, connection, or association with adidas, 

and otherwise damaging the public.

47. APL’s conduct constitutes unfair and deceptive acts or practices in the course of a 

business, trade, or commerce in violation of the unfair and deceptive trade practices statutes of 

several states, including California CAL. BUS. & PROF. CODE § 17200, et seq. (West 2009); 

Colorado, COLO. REV. STAT. ANN. §§ 6-1-101 to 6-1-115 (West 2009); Delaware, DEL. 

CODE ANN. tit. 6, §§ 2531 to 2536 (2009); Georgia, GA. CODE ANN. §§ 10-1-370 to 10-1-

375 (2009); Hawaii, HAW. REV. STAT. §§ 481A-1 to 481A-5 (2009); Illinois, ILL. COMP. 

STAT. ANN. ch. 815, 510/1 to 510/7 (2009); Maine, ME. REV. STAT. ANN. tit. 10, §§ 1211 to 

1216 (West 2009); Minnesota, MINN. STAT. ANN. § 325D.43 to .48 (West 2009); Nebraska, 

NEB. REV. STAT. §§ 87-301 to 87-306 (2009); New Mexico, N.M. STAT. ANN. §§ 57-12-1 to 

57-12-22 (Michie 2009); New York, N.Y. GEN. BUS. Law § 349 (McKinney 2009); Ohio, 

OHIO REV. CODE ANN. §§ 4165.01 to 4165.04 (Baldwin 2009); and Oklahoma, OKLA. 

STAT. ANN. tit. 78, §§ 51 to 55 (West 2009).

48. APL’s unauthorized use of confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Stripe 

Mark has caused and is likely to cause substantial injury to the public and to adidas. adidas, 

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therefore, is entitled to injunctive relief and to recover damages and, if appropriate, punitive 

damages, costs, and reasonable attorneys’ fees.

FOURTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

(Common Law Trademark Infringement and Unfair Competition)

49. adidas repeats and incorporates by reference the allegations in the preceding 

paragraphs.

50. APL’s acts constitute common law trademark infringement and unfair 

competition, and have created and will continue to create, unless restrained by this Court, a 

likelihood of confusion to the irreparable injury of adidas. adidas has no adequate remedy at law 

for this injury.

51. On information and belief, APL acted with full knowledge of adidas’s use of, and 

statutory and common law rights to, the Three-Stripe Mark and without regard to the likelihood 

of confusion of the public created by APL’s activities.

52. APL’s actions demonstrate an intentional, willful, and malicious intent to trade on 

the goodwill associated with the Three-Stripe Mark to the great and irreparable injury of adidas.

53. As a result of APL’s acts, adidas has been damaged in an amount not yet 

determined or ascertainable. At a minimum, however, adidas is entitled to injunctive relief, to an 

accounting of APL’s profits, damages, and costs. Further, in light of the deliberately fraudulent 

and malicious use of confusingly similar imitations of the Three-Stripe Mark, and the need to 

deter APL from engaging in similar conduct in the future, adidas additionally is entitled to 

punitive damages.

FIFTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

(Federal Trademark Dilution)

54. adidas repeats and incorporates by reference the allegations in the preceding 

paragraphs.

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Stripe Mark thus became a famous and well-known symbol of adidas and its products well 

before APL offered for sale the Infringing Footwear.

56. APL is making use in commerce of marks that dilute and are likely to dilute the 

distinctiveness of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark by eroding the public’s exclusive identification of 

the famous Three-Stripe Mark with adidas, tarnishing and degrading the positive associations 

and prestigious connotations of the mark, and otherwise lessening the capacity of the mark to 

identify and distinguish adidas’s goods.

57. APL’s actions demonstrate an intentional, willful, and malicious intent to trade on 

the goodwill associated with adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark or to cause dilution of the Three-Stripe 

Mark to the great and irreparable injury of adidas.

58. APL has caused and will continue to cause irreparable injury to adidas’s goodwill 

and business reputation, and dilution of the distinctiveness and value of adidas’s famous and 

distinctive Three-Stripe Mark, in violation of 15 U.S.C. § 1125(c). adidas therefore is entitled to 

injunctive relief and to APL’s profits, actual damages, enhanced profits and damages, and 

reasonable attorneys’ fees under 15 U.S.C. §§ 1125(c), 1116, and 1117.

SIXTH CLAIM FOR RELIEF

(State Trademark Dilution)

59. adidas repeats and incorporates by reference the allegations in the preceding 

paragraphs.

60. adidas has extensively and continuously promoted and used the registered ThreeStripe Mark both in the United States and throughout the world, and the mark had thereby 

become a distinctive, famous, and well-known symbol of adidas’s goods and services well 

before APL designed, sourced, manufactured, imported, distributed, marketed, promoted, offered 

for sale, or sold the Infringing Footwear. The Three-Stripe Mark is widely recognized by the

general consuming public as a designation that adidas is the source of the goods bearing the 

Three-Stripe Mark.

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61. APL’s unauthorized imitations of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark dilute and are likely 

to dilute the distinctiveness of adidas’s mark by eroding the public’s exclusive identification of 

this famous and well-known mark with adidas, and tarnishing and degrading the positive 

associations and prestigious connotations of the mark, and otherwise lessening the capacity of 

the mark to identify and distinguish adidas’s goods and services.

62. APL is causing and will continue to cause irreparable injury to adidas’s goodwill 

and business reputation, and dilution of the distinctiveness and value of adidas’s famous ThreeStripe Mark in violation of the Oregon anti-dilution statute, O.R.S. § 647.107 (2009), as well as 

the anti-dilution laws of several other states, including Alabama, ALA. CODE § 8-12-17 (2009); 

Alaska, ALASKA STAT. § 45.50.180 (Michie 2009); Arizona, ARIZ. REV. STAT. ANN. § 44-

1448.01 (West 2009); Arkansas, ARK. CODE ANN. § 4-71-213 (2009); California, CAL. BUS. 

& PROF. CODE § 14247 (West 2009); Connecticut, CONN. GEN. STAT. ANN § 35-11i(c) 

(West 2009); Delaware, DEL. CODE ANN. tit. 6, § 3313 (2009); Florida, FLA. STAT. ANN. 

§ 495.151 (West 2007); Georgia, GA. CODE ANN. § 10-1-451 (2009); Hawaii, HAW. REV. 

STAT. ANN. § 482-32 (Michie 2009); Idaho, IDAHO CODE § 48-513 (Michie 2009); Illinois, 

765 ILL. COMP. STAT. ANN. 1036/65 (2009); Iowa, IOWA CODE ANN. § 548.113 (West 

2009); Indiana, IN. CODE 24-2-13.5 (West 2009); Kansas, KAN. STAT. ANN. § 81-214 

(2009); Louisiana, LA. REV. STAT. ANN. § 51:223.1 (West 2009); Maine, ME. REV. STAT. 

ANN. tit. 10, § 1530 (West 2000); Massachusetts, MASS. GEN. LAWS. ANN. ch. 110H, § 13 

(West 2009); Minnesota, MINN. STAT. ANN. § 333.285 (West 2009); Mississippi, MISS. 

CODE. ANN. § 75-25-25 (2009); Missouri, MO. ANN. STAT. § 417.061(1) (West 2009); 

Montana, MONT. CODE ANN. § 30-13-334 (2009); Nebraska, NEB. REV. STAT. ANN. § 87-

140 (Michie 2009); Nevada, NEV. REV. STAT. 600.435 (2007); New Hampshire, N.H. REV. 

STAT. ANN. § 350-A:12 (2009); New Jersey, N.J. STAT. ANN. 56:3-13.20 (West 2009); New 

Mexico, N.M. STAT. ANN. § 57-3B-15 (Michie 2009); New York, N.Y. GEN. BUS. Law 

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§ 360-l (2009); Pennsylvania, 54 PA. CONS. STAT. ANN. § 1124 (West 2009); Rhode Island, 

R.I. GEN. LAWS § 6-2-12 (2009); South Carolina, S. C. CODE ANN. § 39-15-1165 (2009); 

Tennessee, TENN. CODE ANN. § 47-25-513 (2009); Texas, TEX. BUS. & COM. CODE ANN. 

§ 16.29 (Vernon 2009); Utah, UT. CODE ANN. § 70-3a-403 (2009); Washington, WASH. REV. 

CODE ANN. § 19.77.160 (West 2009); West Virginia, W.V. STAT. ANN. 47-2-13 (Michie 

2009); and Wyoming, WYO. STAT. ANN. § 40-1-115 (Michie 2009). adidas therefore is 

entitled to injunctive relief, damages, and costs, as well as, if appropriate, enhanced damages and 

reasonable attorneys’ fees.

PRAYER FOR RELIEF

WHEREFORE, adidas prays that:

1. APL and all of its agents, officers, employees, representatives, successors, 

assigns, attorneys, and all other persons acting for, with, by through or under authority from 

APL, or in concert or participation with APL, and each of them, be enjoined from:

a. using the Three-Stripe Mark or any other copy, reproduction, 

colorable imitation, or simulation of adidas’s Three-Stripe Mark 

on or in connection with APL’s goods;

b. using any trademark, name, logo, design, or source designation of 

any kind on or in connection with APL’s goods or services that is 

a copy, reproduction, colorable imitation, or simulation of, or 

confusingly similar to adidas’s trademarks, trade dresses, names, 

or logos;

c. using any trademark, name, logo, design, or source designation of 

any kind on or in connection with APL’s goods that is likely to 

cause confusion, mistake, deception, or public misunderstanding 

that such goods or services are produced or provided by adidas, or 

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are sponsored or authorized by adidas, or are in any way 

connected or related to adidas;

d. using any trademark, name, logo, design, or source designation of 

any kind on or in connection with APL’s goods that dilutes or is 

likely to dilute the distinctiveness of adidas’s trademarks, trade 

dresses, names, or logos;

e. passing off, palming off, or assisting in passing off or palming off 

APL’s goods as those of adidas, or otherwise continuing any and 

all acts of unfair competition as alleged in this Complaint; and

f. advertising, promoting, offering for sale, or selling the Infringing 

Footwear or other similar goods;

2. APL be ordered to cease offering for sale, marketing, promoting, and selling, to 

remove from its retail stores, and to recall all products sold under or bearing a confusingly 

similar imitation of the Three-Stripe Mark, which are in APL’s possession or have been shipped 

by APL or under its authority, to any customer, including but not limited to, any wholesaler, 

distributor, retailer, consignor, or marketer, and also to deliver to each customer a copy of this 

Court’s order as it relates to said injunctive relief against APL; 

3. APL be ordered to deliver up for impoundment and for destruction, all footwear, 

bags, boxes, labels, tags, signs, packages, receptacles, advertising, sample books, promotional 

materials, stationary, or other materials in the possession, custody or under the control of APL 

that are found to adopt, infringe, or dilute any of adidas’s trademarks, trade dresses, or that 

otherwise unfairly compete with adidas and its products; 

4. APL be compelled to account to adidas for any and all profits derived by APL 

from the sale or distribution of infringing goods as described in this Complaint; 

5. adidas be awarded all damages caused by the acts forming the basis of this 

Complaint; 

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6. Based on APL’s knowing and intentional use of confusingly similar imitations of 

the Three-Stripe Mark, the damages awarded be trebled and the award of APL’s profits be 

enhanced as provided for by 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a); 

7. APL be required to pay to adidas the costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees incurred 

by adidas in this action pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a) and the state statutes cited in this 

Complaint;

8. Based on APL’s willful and deliberate infringement and/or dilution of adidas’s

Three-Stripe Mark, and to deter such conduct in the future, adidas be awarded punitive damages; 

9. adidas be awarded prejudgment and post-judgment interest on all monetary 

awards; and 

10. adidas have such other and further relief as the Court may deem just. 

JURY TRIAL DEMAND

adidas respectfully demands a trial by jury on all claims and issues so triable.

DATED: March 7, 2016 PERKINS COIE LLP

By: s/ Stephen M. Feldman

Stephen M. Feldman, OSB No. 932674

SFeldman@perkinscoie.com

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Portland, OR 97209-4128

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R. Charles Henn Jr. (pro hac vice pending)

chenn@kilpatricktownsend.com

Charles H. Hooker III (pro hac vice pending)

chooker@kilpatricktownsend.com

KILPATRICK TOWNSEND & STOCKTON LLP

1100 Peachtree Street, Suite 2800

Atlanta, GA 30309

Telephone: 404.815.6500

Facsimile: 404.815.6555

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

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