Though The Gemini Club has reopened under new management, litigation continues to follow the bar and music venue in Lake Oswego.
The former LLC that ran the Gemini and caterer Rebecca Bell filed a lawsuit this week asking the Clackamas County Circuit Court to award them $700,000 in damages because the new club is allegedly violating the former LLC’s “Trademark and Trade Dress rights to the ownership and control over the brand ‘Gemini,’” stole Bell’s catering equipment and improperly evicted the former Gemini.
“As a result of Defendants unauthorized use of Gemini’s trade dress and wordmark, Gemini has been damaged in an amount to be proven at trial. Defendants’ actions to operate a bar, venue and restaurant, in the exact same location as Gemini, with all of Gemini’s property, signage, marketing materials, is likely to cause consumer confusion and mistake and to deceive consumers as to the source and ownership of the Gemini brand, of which Gemini has a discernible interest in the ‘look and feel’ of its brand and has been severely injured by Defendants intentional theft thereof,” the lawsuit reads…