Free Response in Opposition to Motion - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

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Joel L. Herz, Esq.

StateBarNo. 015105 Law Offices of Joel L. Herz 3573EastSunriseDrive, Suite215 Tucson,AZ 85718 Telephone: 520-529-8080 Facsimile: 520-529-8077
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Dreier LLP 499 Park Avenue New York, NY 10022 Telephone: 212-328-6100 Facsimile: 212-328-6101 Attorneysfor Defendants FUBU The Collection,LLC and GTFM of Orlando,LLC d/b/a FUBU CompanyStoreandGTFM, LLC UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF ARIWNA ) ) CaseNo. CV 04-1023-PGX-DGC Consolidated with CaseNo. CV 04-0299PHX-DGC DECLARATION OF LA WRENCE BLENDEN

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Plaintiff, ) VS. ) ) HARLEM GLOBETROTfERS ) INTERNATIONAL, INC., an Arizona ) Corporation;HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ) INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC., an ) Arizona Corporation;MANNIE L. JACKSON) andCATHERINE JACKSON,husband and ) wife; FUBU THE COLLECTION, LLC, a )

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business Arizona;GTFM, LLC, a New York j in 25 limited liability companydoing business in ) ) 26 i Arizona; ) 27 Defendants.
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HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS INTERNATIONAL, INC., an Arizona .3 corporation,
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MEADOWLARK LEMON, a marriedman, Counter-defendant.

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LA WRENCE BLENDEN declares follows underpenaltyof perjury as Pursuant 28 U.S.C. § 1746 to 1 I am GeneralCounselof GTFM, LLC and GTFM, Inc. FUBU The Collection,LLC is merely a shareholder GTFM, Inc. of

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and memberof GTFM, LLC, anddoesnot otherwisedo businessin Arizona or elsewhere.FUBU The Collection,LLC doesnot manufacture, advertiseor sell FUBU brandedproducts,and doesnot manufacture, or advertiseproductsusing the sell likenesses namesof any of the plaintiffs in the above-referenced or actions.

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FUBU The Collection,LLC hasneverlicensed,developed, created,

produced,manufactured, promoted,sold, distributed,and/orexploitedany products which might infringe upon the namesand likenesses any of the plaintiffs in the aboveof referenced actions.

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GTFM, Inc. owns all of the trademarks using the word FUBU, of

which thereare many. Attachedheretoas Exhibit A are examplesof certainof those marksfrom the USPTOwebsite.
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GTFM, Inc. andGTFM, LLC both usethe phrase"FUBU The

Collection" as a commonlaw trademarkandas a meansto identify the collectionof appareland otherproductsdistributedand marketedunderthe FUBU trademark.

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FUBU The Collection,LLC doesnot use"FUBU The Collection" as

and 10 a tradename productswith suchlabelsaremarketedby GTFM, LLC (andits 11 12 13
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sublicensees), not FUBU The Collection,LLC. and I declareunderpenaltyof perjury that the foregoingis true and correct.
Dated: New Yor~ New York September~ 2005

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