“Don’t Bogart That Trademark,” says Inhale, Inc. in Trademark Infringement Suit
Inhale, Inc., makers of hookahs and the INHALE vaporizer believes Oglesby & Butler was smoking something other than tobacco when it adopted the name I-INHALE for its vaporizer product, and Inhale put down its own hookah long enough to file suit in the Central District of California for trademark infringement of its name. Inhale has several federal trademark registrations for INHALE for smoking devices “used by individuals to smoke herbs such as tobacco” (not that anyone remembers).
It took less than 10 days for Oglesby & Butler to come out of its fog and change its name to iolite. After all, looks like Inhale had Oglesby head to rights.