Marmoset Complaint

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Page 1 - COMPLAINT FOR TRADE DRESS INFRINGEMENT, UNFAIR COMPETITION,
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT

Timothy S. DeJong, OSB No. 940662
Email: [email protected]
Jacob S. Gill, OSB No. 033238
STOLL STOLL BERNE LOKTING & SHLACHTER P.C.
209 S.W. Oak Street, Suite 500
Portland, Oregon 97204
Telephone: (503) 227-1600
Facsimile: (503) 227-6840

Charles F. Moore, OSB No. 945270
AHMRT LLP
806 S.W. Broadway, Suite 600
Portland, Oregon 97205
Telephone: (503) 459-4141
Facsimile: (503) 459-4142

Attorneys for Plaintiff

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON
PORTLAND DIVISION
MARMOSET, LLC,

Plaintiff,

v.

THE MUSIC BED, LLC,

Defendant.

Case No. 3:14-cv0431

COMPLAINT FOR
TRADE DRESS INFRINGEMENT,
UNFAIR COMPETITION,

DEMAND FOR JURY TRIAL

Plaintiff MARMOSET, LLC, for its Complaint against THE MUSIC BED, LLC, states
and alleges as follows:

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NATURE OF THIS ACTION
1. This is an action for trade dress infringement, unfair competition, and copyright
infringement under the laws of the United States (the Lanham Act, codified at 15 U.S.C. 1051,
et seq., and the Copyright Act, codified at 17 U.S.C. 501, et seq.), and the common law of
trademark infringement, misappropriation, and unfair competition.
JURISDICTION AND VENUE
2. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1331 and
1338(a), and 15 U.S.C. 1121.
3. This Court has personal jurisdiction over Defendant because: (a) Defendant has
substantial contacts in the State of Oregon related to the claims in this action, (b) Defendant
engaged in the wrongful acts alleged herein in the State of Oregon, and/or (c) Defendant
purposely directed its wrongful conduct at Plaintiff in the State of Oregon, knowing that the
resulting harm likely would be suffered by Plaintiff in the State of Oregon.
4. Venue in this judicial district is proper under 28 U.S.C. 1391(b) and (c).
PARTIES
5. Plaintiff MARMOSET, LLC. (Marmoset or Plaintiff) is an Oregon limited
liability company having its principal place of business in Portland, Oregon.
6. Marmoset is a specialized boutique music agency, providing original music
compositions, music licensing, music supervision, and a wide array of other creative services for
film, television, advertising, and other creative endeavors. Marmoset markets, offers, sells, and
delivers its products and services through various channels, including through its website,
MARMOSETMUSIC.COM (the Marmoset Website).
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7. Defendant THE MUSIC BED, LLC (The Music Bed or Defendant) is a Texas
limited liability company having its principal place of business in Fort Worth, Texas.
8. The Music Bed markets, offers, and sells music licensing and music composition
services through various channels, including through its website, THEMUSICBED.COM (the TMB
Website). The Music Bed is a direct competitor to Marmoset, and competes with Marmoset
through the same channels.
9. Without authorization, The Music Bed has copied, reproduced, displayed, modified,
transformed, adapted, and/or distributed copyrightable elements from the Marmoset Website, as
described in greater detail below.
10. Separate and distinct from the copyrightable elements of the Marmoset Website,
Marmoset owns protectable trade dress comprising the distinctive look and feel of the
Marmoset Website, as described in greater detail below.
11. Marmosets trade dress serves to identify Marmoset as the source of high-quality
original music compositions, music licensing, music supervision, and other creative services to
the consuming public. Marmoset has invested substantial time, effort and financial resources
developing and promoting its trade dress in connection with the promotion and delivery of its
products and services. Marmosets trade dress has become an asset of substantial value as the
public face of Marmoset and as a symbol of Marmosets quality products and services and its
goodwill. Marmosets trade dress is inherently distinctive as applied to its products and services.
In the alternative, Marmosets trade dress has acquired secondary meaning through Marmosets
long-term, widespread, and continuous use of its trade dress in commerce.
12. Without authorization, The Music Bed has mimicked and used the distinctive look
and feel of the Marmoset Website on the TMB Website.

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FACTUAL ALLEGATIONS
The Marmoset Website
13. Founded in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, by two born-and-bred Oregon natives, Brian
Hall and Ryan Wines, Marmoset has made a name for itself by producing and delivering
handcrafted, indie-rock-influenced music to storytellers, filmmakers, and other creative
professionals across numerous disciplines. In less than four years, Marmoset has transformed
itself from a scrappy, pioneering start-up to an industry-leading, full-service music agency, with
work featured in viral brand campaigns, award-winning films, and commercials aired during the
Super Bowl and The Academy Awards. Recently highlighted in publications such as Fast
Company, Billboard, and 1859 Oregon Magazine, Marmoset is widely recognized as connecting
the independent music community to the global advertising and film worlds in ways that
previously have not been achieved.
14. Marmoset represents approximately 350 artists and bands for music licensing and
makes more than 10,000 songs and tracks available through the Marmoset Websites online
music licensing platform. Marmoset also regularly works with dozens of independent composers
to create original music scores for its customers and clients.
15. Marmoset created the Marmoset Website to communicate its unique identity and to
more effectively promote and deliver its products and services to its customers and clients.
16. Because Marmosets customers and clients work in digital media, and because
nearly all of Marmosets customers and clients are located outside of Marmosets home town of
Portland, Oregon, the Marmoset Website is where Marmoset interacts with its customers and
clients. As a result, the Marmoset Website is the most significant representation and experience
of the Marmoset brand, and Marmoset worked diligently to ensure that the Marmoset Website

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reflected and embodied the companys character and personality, including its Pacific Northwest
roots and indie music positioning. The Marmoset Website is the product of numerous distinct
choices (with respect to font, colors, layout, design, photographs, video, etc.) all made to most
precisely convey Marmosets unique identity, products, and services.
17. The Marmoset Website bridges the traditional divide between musicians and
filmmakers and other visual storytellers by embracing a story-driven, narrative approach and
avoiding specialized music vernacular. For example, the new, innovative music search platform
at the core of the Marmoset Website filters and presents Marmosets hand-curated collection of
independent music through the lens of storytellersvia story arc, emotional palette, and main
characters. In short, in the Marmoset Website, Marmoset has created a common grounda
place where its customers and clients are able to find music presented in terms that they can
instinctively understand.
18. Marmoset invested substantial resources (both of time and money) to the creation
and development of the Marmoset Website. The Marmoset Website has received widespread
attention, unsolicited recognition and numerous awards for its innovative and distinctive design
and user experience. Such recognition and awards include a 2013 Web Visionary Award by
Design Week Portland, Site of the Day by both CSS Design Awards and Awwwards.com, and
Winner of the Day by CSSWinner, a global platform showcasing and awarding the best websites
and promoting innovative web designers and agencies.
19. The Marmoset Website is available to anyone with an internet connection, and
Marmoset sells and delivers its products and services via the Marmoset Website to customers
and clients located throughout the United States. The Marmoset Website contains photographs,

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video, graphics, and text created exclusively for Marmoset. Marmoset owns all rights, title, and
interest in and to the Marmoset Website.
The Marmoset Website Trade Dress
20. The Marmoset Website exemplifies the business and values of Marmoset. The
Marmoset Website is organic. It is indie. It exhibits a DIY ethica bit frayed around the edges,
but full of texture and heart and an independent music feel. The Marmoset Website reflects
Marmosets Pacific Northwest home and the wonderful and beautiful outdoors. And the
Marmoset Website embodies Marmosets commitment to providing its customers and clients
with the tools and resources that they need to tell their stories.
21. The Marmoset Website incorporates a trade dress comprising a distinct look and
feel of elements. This trade dress includes the placement of photographs, colors, borders,
frames, interactive elements, and overall mood, style, and impression. These elements are
applied throughout the Marmoset Website in combination to create Marmosets trade dress. The
Marmoset Website incorporates a distinctive visual design, graphic treatment, and familiar
interface that has become readily identifiable by the consuming public as originating from
Marmoset.
22. The distinctive and innovative look and feel of the Marmoset Website includes
the following elements that together and in combination create an overall visual impression
unique to Marmoset:
(a) A distinctive palette of colors and image/video filters featuring a clean,
modern, and straightforward user interface highlighted by bright, vibrant colors set in an
environment/backdrop of organic, outdoor tones and washed-out/high-texture filters;

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(b) A home page display featuring a beautiful, full-screen motion picture
incorporating a series of short, stylized, slow motion video vignettes of artists and musicians that
seeks to quickly affirm to Marmosets customers and clients that theyve landed in the right
place by emphasizing Marmosets innovative, story-driven approach to music;
(c) An interface that prominently offers the new user two distinct choicesto
browse music, or to explore original/custom music;
(d) A long scroll page that includes (i) a featured artists section with a single large
image of a featured artist set immediately above five smaller images of select featured artists,
with links to the artists work, (ii) a section offering a variety of playlists/mixtapes represented
by images and descriptions that reflect the story-driven, narrative approach underlying the entire
website, and (iii) a section highlighting examples of Marmosets work;
(e) The consistent placement and location of certain user options and the
companys logo on each and every page of the Marmoset Website, including (i) the consistent
placement and location of the user login, user account registration, and user shopping cart
options in the upper right corner of each page, (ii) the consistent placement and location of the
Marmoset Radio music player at the bottom of each page, and (iii) the consistent placement and
location of the Marmoset company logo in the upper left section of each page;
(f) Marmosets revolutionary music filtering and search interface that highlights
concepts and language familiar to filmmakers and other visual storytellers, including Marmosets
Arc, Mood, and Energy filters, in addition to the Length, Genre, Vocals, and
Instrument filters; and

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(g) The use of distinctive, original icons for everything, from the shopping cart
icon to the download icon, rather than the common existing icons which are readily available for
license on the internet.
The Marmoset Copyrights
23. Marmoset is the owner of U.S. Copyright Registration No. PA 1-882-560, for the
work Marmoset_Opening_Video_-_Brian from Side by Side (trailer) (the Marmoset Video
Copyright), a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.
24. Marmoset is also the owner of all right, title, and interest in and to the copyrightable
elements of the Marmoset Website, including the photographs, video, and text, and their
compilation and arrangement on the Marmoset Website, to the extent the same are copyrightable
(the Marmoset Website Copyright).
The Music Beds Misappropriation and Infringement
of Marmosets Trade Dress and Copyrights
25. The TMB Website mimics the look and feel of the Marmoset Website, utilizing
strikingly and confusingly similar layouts and design elements, including the placement of
photographs, colors, borders, frames, interactive elements, and overall mood, style, and
impression:
(a) The TMB Website seeks to duplicate the Marmoset Websites distinctive
palette of colors and image/video filters;
(b) Like the Marmoset Website, the home page of the TMB Website features a
full-screen motion picture incorporating a series of short, stylized, slow motion video vignettes
of artists and musicians (overlaid with white text invoking a story-driven approach to music);

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(c) Like the Marmoset Website, the TMB Website prominently offers users two
distinct choicesto browse music, or to explore original/custom musicwith the two options
visually presented as side-by-side rectangular text boxes positioned in the center of the screen
(the Marmoset Website identifies the choices as Browse Music and Original Music, and the
TMB Website described the choices as Browse Music and Create a Custom License);
(d) Like the Marmoset Website, the TMB Website includes a featured artist
section using a nearly full-page featured image of a highlighted artist (overlaid with white text
identifying the artist and describing the artists music) set immediately above five smaller
identically-sized images of select featured artists (including the highlighted artist), with links to
the artists work;
(e) Like the Marmoset Website, the TMB Website includes a section offering a
variety of playlists represented by images and narrative descriptions;
(f) Like the Marmoset Website, the TMB Website places a music player at the
bottom of the page, places the user login and user account registration options in the upper right
corner of the page, and places its company logo in the upper left corner of the page;
(g) The TMB Website includes a filter/search interface that uses terms that are
very similar to those used by Marmoset on the Marmoset Website, including Mood,
Characteristics, Length, Genre, Vocals, and Instrument; and
(h) The TMB Website uses numerous icons that are very similar to the distinctive,
original icons created by Marmoset.
26. Below are screenshots showing examples of The Music Beds misappropriation and
infringement of Marmosets protected and valuable intellectual property:

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Marmoset Website.

TMB Website.
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Marmoset Website.

TMB Website.
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Marmoset Website.

TMB Website.

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Marmoset Website.

TMB Website.

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Marmoset Website.

TMB Website.

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27. As described and shown above, the configuration of and overall impression created
by the TMB Website is confusingly similar to the configuration of and overall impression
created by the Marmoset Website.
28. Defendants misappropriation and use of the Marmoset trade dress is intended to
cause consumers to mistakenly believe that the products and services offered on the TMB
Website are provided by or associated with Marmoset.
29. Furthermore, The Music Bed has misappropriated, copied, distributed, created
derivative works of, emulated, and publicly displayed on the TMB Website, and made
commercial use of, material that infringes the Marmoset Video Copyright and the Marmoset
Website Copyright.
30. Marmoset has never authorized or otherwise granted any right to The Music Bed to
make any use of the Marmoset trade dress or the Marmoset copyrights.
PLAINTIFFS FIRST CLAIM
(Trade Dress Infringement/Unfair Competition, 15 U.S.C. 1125)
31. Plaintiff repeats and realleges each of the allegations contained in paragraphs 1
through 30 of this Complaint as if fully set forth herein.
32. Marmoset markets, offers, sells, and delivers its products and services through the
Marmoset Website.
33. Prior to Defendants conduct that forms the basis for this Complaint, consumers
had come to associate the distinctive look and feel of the Marmoset Website with Marmosets
products and services.
34. Through its promotional efforts, business conduct, and continuous use of the
Marmoset Website and its associated trade dress, Marmoset has developed and maintained

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clients throughout the United States, including in Oregon. Through its widespread and favorable
acceptance and recognition by the consuming public, the look and feel of Marmosets website
has become an asset of substantial value as a symbol of Marmoset, its high quality products and
services, and its goodwill.
35. Accordingly, Marmoset has established valid and enforceable rights in the look
and feel of the Marmoset Website, as described above.
36. Notwithstanding Marmosets preexisting valid and enforceable rights in the look
and feel of the Marmoset Website, The Music Bed, without permission or approval, is using
Marmosets trade dress on the TMB Website to offer and sell its products and services in the
United States, including in Oregon.
37. As a result of The Music Beds unauthorized use of Marmosets trade dress,
Marmoset and The Music Bed use (and have used) Marmosets trade dress in connection with
related products and services.
38. Marmoset and The Music Bed offer (and have offered) their respective products
and services to customers and clients and/or the relevant consumer base in the same geographical
locations and through the same trade channels.
39. The Music Bed is a direct competitor of Marmoset.
40. The Music Beds unauthorized use of the look and feel of the Marmoset
Website in connection with offering related and competing products and services is not
authorized by Marmoset and is likely to cause consumer confusion and mistake, and to deceive
consumers as to the source, origin, or affiliation of The Music Beds products and services.

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41. Marmoset has a discernible interest in the look and feel of the Marmoset
Website, and Marmoset has been, and continues to be, injured by The Music Beds unauthorized
and unlawful use of Marmosets trade dress.
42. The Music Beds unauthorized use of the look and feel of the Marmoset
Website in connection with related and competing products and services is causing confusion
among purchasers and potential purchasers of Marmosets products and services.
43. The acts by The Music Bed described above constitute an infringement and
misappropriation of Marmosets rights in and to the use of the look and feel of the Marmoset
Website, with consequent damages to Marmoset and the business and goodwill associated with
and symbolized by Marmosets trade dress, and, specifically, give rise to this claim under 15
U.S.C. 1125.
44. The Music Beds acts of unfair competition have caused and are causing great and
irreparable harm to Marmoset, Marmosets goodwill, and Marmosets rights in and to the look
and feel of the Marmoset Website, in an amount which cannot be adequately determined at this
time and, unless restrained, will cause further irreparable injury and damage, leaving Marmoset
with no adequate remedy at law.
45. On information and belief, The Music Beds acts of infringement and
misappropriation have been and are being committed with actual knowledge of Marmosets prior
rights in the look and feel of the Marmoset Website, and are willful and in gross disregard of
Marmosets rights.
46. By reason of the foregoing, Marmoset is entitled to injunctive relief against The
Music Bed, and anyone associated therewith, to restrain further acts of unfair competition and
trade dress infringement, and to recover any damages proven to have been caused by reason of

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The Music Beds aforesaid acts of unfair competition and trade dress infringement, and to
recover enhanced damages based upon the willful, intentional, and/or grossly negligent activities
of The Music Bed.
PLAINTIFFS SECOND CLAIM
(Copyright Infringement)
47. Plaintiff repeats and realleges each of the allegations contained in paragraphs 1
48. Marmoset holds a registered copyright in the work Marmoset_Opening_Video_-
_Brian from Side by Side (trailer) (the Marmoset Video) presented on Marmoset Website,
including, but not limited to, the portion of the video containing the right side profile of
Marmosets co-founder and Creative Director, Brian Hall, as shown in the following screenshot
from the Marmoset Website:

49. Marmoset is also the owner of all right, title, and interest in and to all other
copyrightable elements of the Marmoset Website, including the photographs, video, and text, and

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their compilation and arrangement on the Marmoset Website, to the extent the same are
copyrightable.
50. Defendant had access to the Marmoset Website, including the Marmoset Video.
51. Defendant copied and/or created derivative works from the Marmoset Video,
including, but not limited to, in connection with the video shown in the following screenshots
from the TMB Website (the TMB Duplicate Video):

52. The TMB Duplicate Video and/or portions thereof, is substantially similar to the
copyrighted Marmoset Video and/or portions thereof.
53. The Music Bed has infringed Marmosets copyrighted work in violation of 17
U.S.C. 501 by reproducing, distributing, creating derivative works based upon, and publicly
displaying works that were copied or caused to be copied from the Marmoset Video and that are
substantially similar to that copyrighted work.

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54. The Music Bed has acted, and is acting, without the permission, license, consent,
or authorization of Marmoset.
55. The Music Beds acts of copyright infringement have caused and are causing
great and irreparable harm to Marmoset, Marmosets goodwill, and Marmosets rights in and to
the Marmoset Video and the Marmoset Video Copyright, in an amount which cannot be
adequately determined at this time and, unless restrained, will cause further irreparable injury
and damage, leaving Marmoset with no adequate remedy at law.
56. On information and belief, The Music Beds acts of copyright infringement have
been and are being committed with actual knowledge of Marmosets prior rights in the Marmoset
Video, and are willful and in gross disregard of Marmosets rights.
Music Bed, and anyone associated therewith, to restrain further acts of copyright infringement,
and to recover any damages proven to have been caused by reason of The Music Beds aforesaid
acts of copyright infringement, and to recover enhanced damages based upon the willful,
intentional, and/or grossly negligent activities of The Music Bed.
PLAINTIFFS THIRD CLAIM
(Common Law Trademark Infringement/Unfair Competition)
58. Plaintiffs repeat and reallege each of the allegations contained in paragraphs 1
59. On account of Marmosets long and continuous use of the protected trade dress in
the Marmoset Website, Marmoset has established common law trademark rights in the look and
feel of the Marmoset Website.
60. The acts by The Music Bed described above constitute an infringement and

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misappropriation of Marmosets common law rights in and to the look and feel of the
Marmoset Website, with consequent damages to Marmoset and the business and goodwill
associated with and symbolized by Marmosets trade dress, and, specifically, give rise to this
action under the common law of trademarks and unfair competition.
61. The Music Beds acts of infringement and misappropriation have caused and are
causing great and irreparable harm to Marmoset, Marmosets goodwill, and Marmosets rights in
and to the look and feel of the Marmoset Website, in an amount which cannot be adequately
determined at this time and, unless restrained, will cause further irreparable injury and damage,
leaving Marmoset with no adequate remedy at law.
62. On information and belief, The Music Beds acts of infringement and
misappropriation have been and are being committed with actual knowledge of Marmosets prior
rights in the look and feel of the Marmoset Website, and are willful and in gross disregard of
Marmosets rights.
Music Bed, and anyone associated therewith, to restrain further acts of infringement or unfair
competition, and to recover any damages proven to have been caused by reason of The Music
Beds aforesaid acts of infringement and unfair competition, and to recover enhanced damages
based upon the willful, intentional, and/or grossly negligent activities of The Music Bed.
PRAYER
WHEREFORE, Marmoset prays for the following relief:
A. A permanent nationwide injunction enjoining The Music Bed, its employees,
agents, officers, directors, attorneys, representatives, successors, affiliates, subsidiaries and
assigns, and all those in concert or participation with any of them, from:
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(1) imitating, copying, using, reproducing, registering, attempting to register,
transmitting, and/or displaying a website which colorably imitates or is confusingly similar to the
look and feel of the Marmoset Website;
(2) using any other false description or representation or any other thing
calculated or likely to cause confusion, deception, or mistake in the marketplace with regard to
Marmosets protectable trade dress in the look and feel of the Marmoset Website; and
(3) copying, distributing, publicly displaying, or creating derivative works based
upon the Marmoset Video or any other copyrightable element of the Marmoset Website.
B. An award to Marmoset of damages to compensate for The Music Beds
infringement and misappropriation in an amount to be proven at trial, including Marmosets
actual damages and The Music Beds profits attributable to its infringement and
misappropriation;
C. An order directing The Music Bed to remove from the TMB Website all materials
that infringe Marmosets trade dress or copyrights;
D. An award of Marmosets attorneys fees, treble actual damages, and treble damages
based upon an accounting of The Music Beds profits, including all statutory enhancements,
other enhancements, and attorneys fees on account of the willful nature of The Music Beds acts
as provided in 15 U.S.C. 1117 and pursuant to 17 U.S.C. 505;
E. An order directing The Music Bed to undertake corrective advertising in a form,
manner, and frequency that is acceptable to Marmoset and the Court; and
F. Such other relief, in law or in equity, to which Marmoset may be entitled, or which
this Court may deem just and proper.

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JURY DEMAND
Pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 38(b), Plaintiff hereby demands a trial by
jury as to all issues so triable in this action.
DATED this 17th day of March, 2014.
STOLL STOLL BERNE LOKTING & SHLACHTER P.C.

By: /s/ Timothy S. DeJong
Timothy S. DeJong, OSB No. 940662
Jacob S. Gill, OSB No. 033238

209 SW Oak Street, Suite 500
Portland, OR 97204
Telephone: (503) 227-1600
Facsimile: (503) 227-6840
[email protected]

-AND-

Charles F. Moore, OSB No. 945270
AHMRT LLP
806 S.W. Broadway, Suite 600
Portland, OR 97205
Telephone: (503) 459-4141
Facsimile: (503) 459-4142

Attorneys for Plaintiff


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