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February 16, 2021
Abira Medical Laboratories, LLC doing business as Genesis Diagnostics (Genesis), filed a complaint on Monday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Medical Diagnostic Laboratories, LLC (MDL) for trademark infringement. Genesis argued that MDL both infringed on its “Genesis Diagnostics” mark and caused its pending application for a similar, stylized mark to be suspended by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) due to MDL’s application for a competing trademark.
According to the filing, the parties are both foreign limited liability companies with principal places of business in Pennsylvania and in MDL’s case, New Jersey. Though both are medical laboratory testing companies, the complaint specifies that Genesis offers laboratory testing services at its facilities in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, or through labs it can set up at hospitals to “provide on-site clinical laboratory, pharmacy, genetics, and addiction rehabilitatio