Jump Rope Systems (Molly Metz) v. Coulter Ventures (Rogue Fitness)

Overview

The inventor, founder and owner of Jump Rope Systems is Molly Metz, a competitive and globally recognized jump rope athlete and educator.  She built her small business and produced and sold products only to find that one of her customers, Rogue Fitness, was copying her product.  Rogue refused to do business with Molly and simply took the market away from her through their scurrilous cheating and unfair competition -- what is known as efficient infringement.  Rogue had access to capital and was able to flood the market with cheap, knock offs.  Molly tried to defend her rights in federal court; however Rogue cheated again by going to the invalidity court at the USPTO -- the Patent Trial and Appeals Board -- with sloppy experts that would have never made it to the pros -- real judges with real juries in a real federal court.  The US Supreme Court declined to hear her case.  We will never know why Molly was denied her Constitutional right to a trial.

The brief filed by Fair Inventing Fund can be viewed here.