World Champ Tech LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 San Francisco Division 11 WORLD CHAMP TECH LLC, Case No. 21-cv-03202-LB

12 Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY

13 v. JUDGMENT TO THE DEFENDANT

14 PELOTON INTERACTIVE, INC., Re: ECF Nos. 134, 135 15 Defendant. 16 17 INTRODUCTION 18 The plaintiff World Champ Tech, which offers a mobile-fitness app called “Bike+” and owns a 19 trademark registration for the same name, sued the defendant Peloton Interactive for trademark 20 infringement and other claims after the defendant launched a new line of interactive stationary 21 bicycles under the name “Peloton Bike+.” The defendant raised various affirmative defenses — 22 such as that the plaintiff abandoned its mark by not updating its app and by showing other signs of 23 inactivity — and counterclaimed for trademark cancellation due to abandonment and fraud on the 24 USPTO (in the form of misrepresentations about the continued operability of the app). The parties 25 …