The order, issued by Chief Judge Wendy Beetlestone on April 21, 2026, dismissed all of defendant 01 Consulting LLC’s counterclaims with prejudice and declared that the plaintiff did not infringe on the disputed mark.
The court also ordered the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to cancel Registration Number 6,489,058 and make the appropriate entry on the PTO records.
The ruling came after the court granted MEDDICC LTD.’s motion for summary judgment on its claims for declaratory judgment of non-infringement and cancellation pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1119.
The court denied the summary judgment motion in all other respects, leaving the plaintiff’s claims for interference with contractual relations, interference with prospective contractual relations, and trade libel to proceed.
In a separate ruling, the court granted the defendants’ motion to exclude the testimony of plaintiff’s expert, John McMahon.
McMahon was barred from testifying that the term "MEDDPICC" cannot be considered a trademark, that it is generic or merely descriptive, or that the methodology cannot serve as a trademark.
The court also excluded testimony stating that defendant Darius Lahoutifard’s mark should never have been registered or that his trademark claims lack validity.
The motion to exclude McMahon was denied in all other respects.
With the IP claims resolved, the court ordered both parties to file letters by April 22, 2026, explaining the relevance of their respective damages experts to the remaining tort claims.
Defendants and the plaintiff each have until April 24, 2026, to file responses to those letters.
Motions filed at ECF Nos. 49, 54, and 56 were denied as moot following the parties' filing of unredacted versions of their Daubert and summary judgment motions in response to a prior sealing order.