Representative Cases

Gunn, Lee & Cave P.C.

Since 2009, our firm has represented clients in over 160 cases in federal court, most of which involved intellectual property claims. Of those cases, 35 involved copyright infringement. Here are a few representative cases:

  • W.I. Davis Hankins v. Ancira Enterprises, Inc., et al. in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:22-cv-897: Our firm represented the defendant in a copyright infringement action involving the infamous jingle “Think Ancira!” authored by the plaintiff and used by the defendant in television and radio advertisements in San Antonio and surrounding areas. 


  • Jose Antonio Rodriguez v. Atlanta National League Baseball Club, LLC, et al., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:21-cv-732, our firm represented the plaintiff in a copyright infringement action involving the Atlanta Braves logo. 


  • Steven Hirsch v. R Communications, LLC, in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (McAllen), Case No. 7:18-cv-321: Our firm represented the defendant in a copyright infringement action involving a photograph taken by the plaintiff. 


  • Gary Hartman d/b/a Gary Hartman Photography v. Bago Luma Collections, Inc., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:03-CA-0465: Our firm represented the plaintiff in a copyright infringement action involving photographs he took of the defendant’s furniture, which the defendant later published them in a sales catalog without owning the rights to the photographs. 


  • Sony BMG Music Entertainment et al. v. Cuellar, in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Corpus Christi), Case No. CA-C-07-58, our firm represented the defendant in a copyright infringement action regarding a peer-to-peer file-sharing case. 


  • Abilene Christian University v. Gerald Ewing, in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Abilene), Case No. 1:10-cv-00249, our firm represented the plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that ACU did not infringe the plaintiff’s copyrights. 


  • Stauffer v. Civil Air Patrol et al., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:19-cv-01293, our firm represented the defendants in a copyright infringement action. 


  • Luckenbach Texas, Inc. v. Skloss et al, in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (Austin), Case No. 1:21-cv-00871, our firm represented defendants against claims of trademark infringement. 


  • Adams Extract & Spice, LLC v. Adams Rib Rubb, LLC, in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:20-cv-01222: Our firm represented the defendant against claims of trademark infringement. 


  • Milestone IP LLC v. Broadway National Bank, in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (Waco), Case No. 6:20-cv-00885, our firm represented the defendant against claims of patent infringement involving patents on check scanning technology. 


  • John Mezzalingua Associates, Inc. v. PCT International, Inc., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. SA-09-CA-0410RF, our firm represented the defendant against claims of patent infringement involving a patent related to coaxial cable connectors. 


  • Mimedx Group, Inc. v. Tissue Transplant Technology, Ltd. et al., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:14-cv-719, our firm represented the defendants against claims of patent infringement involving patents on biomedical tissue grafts processed from human amniotic membranes. 


  • Brian Robert Blazer v. Lowe’s Companies, Inc., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (Waco), Case No. 6:20-cv-00276, our firm represented the defendant in a patent infringement case involving patents on bee traps. 


  • Borderlands Traders LLC, et al. v. Alonso et al., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas, San Antonio Division, Case No. 5:20-cv-01005, our firm represented several defendants against claims of trademark infringement and unfair competition. 


  • Warren Oil Company, Inc. et al. v. Texas Genuine Automatic Transmission Fluid, Inc. et al., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. SA-05-CA-0120, our firm represented the defendants in a trademark infringement and unfair competition action. 


  • Southwest Business Corporation et al. v. Realogy Holdings Corp. et al., in the U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas (San Antonio), Case No. 5:19-cv-01384, our firm represented the plaintiff and SWBC Mortgage Corporation in a trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit. 



  • Dollar Financial Group, Inc. v. Brittex Financial, Inc. in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Case No. 2023-1375), our firm successfully appealed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s decision denying Brittex Financial’s petition to cancel DFG’s trademark registration, won on remand, and successfully defended Brittex Financial, in a precedential opinion, against DFG’s appeal that the zone of natural expansion was not a valid defense for DFG.