Gray is seeking unspecified damages and any profits the defendants received from the suspected infringement.
The police said they suspected copyright infringement of the leopard design.
Verizon has refused to comply with a subpoena issued under a process intended to allow copyright owners to get personal information quickly about people suspected of infringement.
"Through the Sabela case we became more intimate with DoubleClick's DART system, but we long suspected the infringement was there," Moran says.
The methodology described here can be applied to the identification of physical designs of circuits that may contain suspected patent infringement, and it is suitable for a wide range of circuits and systems.
At the time he represented more than 50 "legends," as he called them and, over the years, retained as many as 14 law firms at a time to scout out cases of suspected trademark infringement.
C5 SBC Resists Record Industry As the recording industry pursues lawsuits against people it says are digital music pirates, only SBC Communications refuses to identify the computer users suspected of copyright infringement.
Over Thanksgiving weekend 2010, a popular hip-hop blog, Dajaz1.com, was shut down as part of a sweep by federal authorities of dozens of Web sites suspected of copyright infringement and selling counterfeit goods.
The sites were shut over the Thanksgiving weekend as part of "Operation In Our Sites," a crackdown on 82 domains, or Web addresses, suspected of copyright infringement and selling counterfeit handbags, sunglasses and other consumer goods.
But the three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia also had tough questions for Verizon, which is challenging the record industry's interpretation of a 1998 law that allows copyright holders to force Internet service providers to identify customers suspected of copyright infringement.
