Tari Labs, LLC v. Lightning Labs, Inc.

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 TARI LABS, LLC, Case No. 3:22-cv-07789-WHO

Plaintiff,

ORDER ENTERING TEMPORARY

v. RESTRAINING ORDER

LIGHTNING LABS, INC., Re: Dkt. No. 25 Defendant.

12 Tari Labs, LLC, brings this motion for a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) against Lightning Labs, Inc., seeking to temporarily restrain Lightning’s use of the name “TARO” for its protocol because it infringes Tari’s trademark for the “TARI” protocol. Both are blockchain- based software protocols used to create and transfer digital assets, and both companies market their protocols to similar software developer customers. Although Tari purports to make consumer-facing products itself while Lightning creates the protocol so outside developers can make consumer-facing products, those retail products seem to overlap both in use and in customer bases, and so the similar names and marks are likely to confuse customers. For those and the following reasons, on this record I…