Yellowfin said was it too similar in design to its Yellowfin 25 providing the court with images of both boats and diagrams of its sheer line.

Yellowfin boats lawsuit. A federal judge in Tampa has dismissed a lawsuit that Bradenton boat maker Yellowfin Yachts filed against rival Barker Boatworks. The Quintrex Yellowfin 6500 HT has many strengths among them the fact this sizeable package is able to be towed by most medium 4WDs and SUVs. The arrogance of the National Marine Fisheries Service and their refusal to correct the inequities in the plan left this coalition no choice but to move ahead with the lawsuit.

Yellowfin said in the lawsuit that Barker Boatworks founded in 2014 had violated its trade dress rights with a new 25-foot model that Barker had commissioned naval architect Michael Peters to design. A federal judge in Tampa has dismissed a lawsuit that Bradenton boat maker Yellowfin Yachts filed against rival Barker Boatworks. Yellowfin also accused Kevin Barker a former vice president of stealing trade secrets while working for Yellowfin.

Yellowfin also accused owner Kevin Barker of stealing trade secrets from. On August 7 2018 the Eleventh Circuit affirmed summary judgment in favor of defendant in Yellowfin Yachts v. Luxury boat building company Yellowfin Boats.

Yellowfin has been able to sustain its 140-vessel-a-year production by not only building high-quality market-specific boats but also by pilfering market share from other manufacturers Nagler says. The first of the six TMU patrol boats built by Yellowfin was commissioned by DPS in December 2011 and the final boat went into service in November 2012. Sending the rival high-end boatmakers back to shore after a two-year dispute the Eleventh Circuit concluded among other things that plaintiff had not done enough to maintain the secrecy of its alleged trade secret information.

Hogs Breath - 2007. Were building the same amount of boats this year as we were five years ago says Nagler who formed Yellowfin after owning and then selling a flats boat company Back Country Powerboats. Yellowfin is alleging that Barker violated its trade dress rights by making boats that are very similar to in design to theirs.

So far Barker Boatworks has delivered 20 boats and has orders for 50 more. The initial lawsuit filed in April 2015 alleged that Barker violated Yellowfins trade dress rights by making boats very similar in design to the vessels Yellowfin had produced since 1998. The new Southerner 7000 and 7600 HT are smart looking nicely proportioned plate-alloy boats and first-class offshore fishing rigs.