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Kyjen Co. v. Schedule A Defendants — Pet Products IP Default Judgment | PatSnap
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Kyjen Co. v. Schedule A Defendants: Final Default Judgment in Outward Hound IP Case

Kyjen Co., LLC — maker of the Outward Hound pet product brand — secured a final default judgment against unnamed e-commerce sellers for infringing 10 patents and associated trademarks. The Florida Southern District Court awarded $200,000 in statutory damages and entered a sweeping permanent injunction covering major online marketplaces including Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, Temu, and Walmart.

Resolution time
361days
Case duration from filing to close — 361 days in the Florida Southern District
Patents asserted
10
USD0755446S and 9 further patents asserted — pet product designs and utility patents
Outcome
Default Judgment
Final default judgment entered in favor of plaintiff; defendants did not appear or contest
Cost ruling
$200,000
Statutory damages awarded under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(c) for willful trademark infringement
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Case overview

Outward Hound brand owner secures default judgment against online counterfeiters

Kyjen Co., LLC, the company behind the Outward Hound pet product brand, filed this infringement action on April 10, 2025 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Case No. 0:25-cv-60699) before Judge Raag Singhal. The complaint asserted 10 patents — five design patents (USD755446S, USD705999S, USD706494S, USD706001S, USD706000S), two utility patents (US8316804B2 and US9756835B1), and three additional design patents (USD769546S, USD833086S, USD676619S) — alongside the Outward Hound trademarks, all relating to pet products.

The defendants — identified collectively as individuals, corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and unincorporated associations listed on Schedule A, a standard procedural device used in e-commerce counterfeit actions — did not appear or defend the action. Kyjen moved for final default judgment, which the court granted. On January 6, 2026, the court entered a separate final judgment awarding $200,000 in statutory damages under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(c), based on findings of willful infringement of at least one trademark on one type of good, and entered a permanent injunction restraining further infringement across all major e-commerce platforms.

The case closed on April 6, 2026, approximately 361 days after filing. The use of a Schedule A defendant structure is consistent with anti-counterfeiting enforcement strategies targeting anonymous online marketplaces. The statutory damages award reflects both willfulness and deterrence considerations as noted by the court. The specific identities of the defendants listed on Schedule A, and the precise number of seller accounts affected, are not disclosed in the publicly available record reviewed here.

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Case at a glance
CourtFlorida Southern District Court
JudgeRaag Singhal
FiledApril 10, 2025
ClosedApril 6, 2026
Duration361 days
OutcomeDefault Judgment
Verdict causeInfringement Action
BasisDefault Judgment
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Case timeline

Filing to Default Judgment in 361 days

Case duration from filing to close — 361 days in the Florida Southern District

Case timeline: Complaint filed APR 10 2025 — 361 days total Horizontal timeline showing the three key events in Kyjen Co., LLC v The Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule A from filing to resolution. Source: PACER, Florida Southern District Court. APR 10 2025 Complaint filed Pre-trial proceedings APR 6 2026 Default Judgment 361 DAYS TOTAL
Patent at issue

USD0755446S and 9 further Outward Hound patents — pet product designs and utility

Publication No.USD0755446S
Application No.US29/374023
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0755446S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0705999S
Application No.US29/467086
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0705999S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0706494S
Application No.US29/485643
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0706494S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0706001S
Application No.US29/481682
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0706001S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0706000S
Application No.US29/468481
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0706000S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.US8316804B2
Application No.US12/746058
Patent details
ProductPet product utility and functional method patent (US8316804B2)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.US9756835B1
Application No.US15/627379
Patent details
ProductPet product utility innovation patent (US9756835B1)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0769546S
Application No.US29/538971
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0769546S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0833086S
Application No.US29/575276
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0833086S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025

Publication No.USD0676619S
Application No.US29/416596
Patent details
ProductOutward Hound pet product ornamental design (USD0676619S)
Cited in actionApril 10, 2025
Technical brief · sourced from PatSnap patent database
Patent figurePatent figure
Representative claim (1 of 1 independent)
1. A pet board game including a game board comprising: a plurality of spaced apart tracks wherein, within each of said tracks there are two first cavities and a second cavity in between said first cavities said cavities extending below each of said tracks; two game covers being movably arranged along and engaging each of said tracks to facilitate covering each one of said cavities; and at least one pet board game detail having a body fitting into each of said tracks, wherein said body has a height, a width and a length arranged to be gripable by the mouth of a pet, said game covers comprising a body or body porti…
Technical background
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS This application is a national stage entry under 35 U.S.C. 371 of International Application No. PCT/SE2008/051415, filed 8 Dec. 2008 designating the United States. This application claims foreign priority under 35 U.S.C. 119 and 365 to Swedish Patent Application No. 0702795-6, filed 14 Dec. 2007. TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates generally to stimulating, encouraging and motivating games and methods of playing regarding pets, e.g. dogs and cats. More particularly,…
Patent family
7 family members across 5 jurisdictions (WO, US, CA, EP, DE)
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Should you run an FTO against Kyjen Co.'s Outward Hound patent portfolio?

Any company manufacturing, importing, or selling pet products through major online marketplaces — including Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, Temu, Walmart, or Wish — should treat this case as a signal to audit their product lines against the Outward Hound patent portfolio. The 10 asserted patents cover both ornamental designs and functional utility, meaning a product need not be a direct visual copy to potentially infringe. R&D and product teams developing new pet product lines should run FTO searches before market entry.

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Official verdict

Official order — verbatim text

THIS CAUSE comes before the Court on Plaintiff’s Motion for Entry of Final Default Judgment (DE [30]) (the “Motion”). The Court granted the Motion in a separate Order. Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58(a), the Court hereby ENTERS THIS SEPARATE FINAL JUDGMENT. Accordingly, it its ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that Final Default Judgment is hereby entered in favor of Plaintiff, THE KYJEN COMPANY, LLC (“Plaintiff”), and against Defendant, the Individual, Corporation, Limited Liability Company, Partnership, and/or Unincorporated Association Identified on Schedule A hereto (the “Defendant”) as follows: (1) Permanent Injunctive Relief: Defendant and its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, distributors, and all persons acting in concert and participation with Defendant are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from: a. manufacturing or causing to be manufactured, importing, advertising, Case 0:25-cv-60699-AHS Document 35 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/06/2026 Page 1 of 9 2 or promoting, distributing, selling or offering to sell counterfeit and infringing goods bearing Plaintiff’s trademarks, or any confusingly similar trademarks identified in Paragraph 2 of the Amended Complaint (the “Outward Hound Trademarks”), b. using the Outward Hound Trademarks identified in Paragraph 2 of the Amended Complaint in connection with the sale of any unauthorized goods; c. using any logo, and/or layout which may be calculated to falsely advertise the services or products of the Defendant as being sponsored by, authorized by, endorsed by, or in any way associated with Plaintiff; d. falsely representing themselves as being connected with Plaintiff, through sponsorship or association; e. engaging in any act which is likely to falsely cause members of the trade and/or of the purchasing public to believe any goods or services of the Defendant are in any way endorsed by, approved by, and/or associated with Plaintiff; f. using any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of the Outward Hound Trademarks in connection with the publicity, promotion, sale, or advertising of any goods sold by the Defendant; g. affixing, applying, annexing, or using in connection with the sale of any goods, a false description or representation, including words or other symbols tending to falsely describe or represent goods offered for sale or sold by the Defendant as being those of Plaintiff or in any way endorsed by Plaintiff; h. using the Outward Hound Trademarks or any confusingly similar trademarks or works on e-commerce marketplace sites, domain name extensions, metatags or other markers within website source code, from use on any webpage Case 0:25-cv-60699-AHS Document 35 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/06/2026 Page 2 of 9 3 (including as the title of any web page), from any advertising links to other websites, from search engines’ databases or cache memory, and from any other form of use of such terms which are visible to a computer user or serves to direct computer searches to ecommerce stores, websites, and/or Internet businesses registered, owned, or operated by the Defendant; and i. effecting assignments or transfers, forming new entities or associations, or utilizing any other device for the purpose of circumventing or otherwise avoiding the prohibitions set forth above. Defendant and its officers, directors, employees, agents, subsidiaries, distributors, and all persons acting in concert and participation with Defendant are hereby permanently restrained and enjoined from: a. manufacturing or causing to be manufactured, importing, advertising, or promoting, distributing, selling or offering to sell or unauthorized and unlicensed products which either utilize the technology of, or embody the designs of the patents identified in Paragraph 2 of the Amended Complaint (the “Outward Hound Patents”) (DE [6]); b. From making, using, selling, importing and/or offering to sell products that infringe the Outward Hound Patents (together, the Outward Hound Trademarks, and Outward Hound Patents “the Outward Hound IP”); c. From: i. passing off, inducing, or enabling others to sell or pass off any product as a genuine Outward Hound Product or any other product produced by Plaintiff, that is not Plaintiff’s or not Case 0:25-cv-60699-AHS Document 35 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/06/2026 Page 3 of 9 4 produced under the authorization, control, or supervision of Plaintiff and approved by Plaintiff for sale under Plaintiff’s Outward Hound IP; ii. committing any acts calculated to cause consumers to believe that Defendant’s products are those sold under the authorization, control or supervision of Plaintiff, or are sponsored by, approved by, or otherwise connected with Plaintiff; iii. further infringing Plaintiff’s Outward Hound Patents and damaging Plaintiff’s goodwill; iv. shipping, delivering, holding for sale, transferring or otherwise moving, storing, distributing, returning, or otherwise disposing of, in any manner, products or inventory not manufactured by or for Plaintiff, nor authorized by Plaintiff to be sold or offered for sale, and which embody or infringe Plaintiff’s Outward Hound IP or any reproductions or colorable imitations thereof; v. using, linking to, transferring, selling, exercising control over, or otherwise owning the Online Marketplace Accounts, the Internet Stores, or any other domain name or online marketplace account that is being used to sell or is the means by which Defendant could continue to sell counterfeit Outward Hound Products; vi. operating and/or hosting websites at the Internet Stores or Case 0:25-cv-60699-AHS Document 35 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/06/2026 Page 4 of 9 5 any other domain names registered or operated by Defendant that are involved with the distribution, marketing, advertising, offering for sale, or sale of any product infringing Plaintiff’s Outward Hound IP or any reproductions or colorable imitations thereof that is not a genuine Outward Hound Product or not authorized by Plaintiff to be sold in connection with Plaintiff’s Outward Hound Patents; and vii. effecting assignments or transfers, forming new entities or associations or utilizing any other device for the purpose of circumventing or otherwise avoiding the prohibitions set forth above. (2) Additional Equitable Relief: a. Upon Plaintiff’s request, the Internet marketplace website operators and/or administrators for the Internet based e-commerce stores operating under the seller identification names identified on Schedule A hereto (the “Seller ID”), including but not limited to Hong Kong Limited, which operates the AliExpress.com platform, Amazon, DHgate, eBay, Etsy, Temu, Walmart.com, and ContextLogic, Inc., which operates the Wish platform, shall permanently remove any and all listings and associated images of goods infringing the Outward Hound Trademarks and Outward Hound Patents via the ecommerce stores operating under the Seller ID, and any other listings and images of goods infringing the Outward Hound IP associated with the same sellers or linked to any other alias seller identification names or e-commerce stores being used and/or controlled by Defendant to promote, offer for sale and/or sell goods infringing the Outward Hound Case 0:25-cv-60699-AHS Document 35 Entered on FLSD Docket 01/06/2026 Page 5 of 9 6 IP; and b. Upon Plaintiff’s request, any Internet marketplace website operator and/or administrator who is in possession, custody, or control of Defendant’s goods infringing the Outward Hound IP, including but not limited to Hong Kong Limited, which operates the AliExpress.com platform, Amazon, DHgate, eBay, Etsy, Temu, Walmart.com, and ContextLogic, Inc., which operates the Wish platform, shall permanently cease fulfillment of and sequester those goods, and surrender the same to Plaintiff. (3) Statutory damages in favor of Plaintiff pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 1117(c): a. Award Plaintiff damages of $200,000.00 against the Defendant, for which let execution issue, based upon the Court’s finding that the Defendant infringed at least one trademark on one type of good. The Court considered both the willfulness of the Defendant’s conduct and the deterrent value of the award imposed, and th
Source: PACER Docket, Case 0:25-cv-60699, Florida Southern District Court

The final default judgment is comprehensive in scope, combining statutory trademark damages under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(c) with patent-based injunctive relief across all major e-commerce platforms. The court's explicit reference to willfulness and deterrence in setting the $200,000 award suggests it exercised discretion at the higher end of the per-mark range for a single good type. The injunction's reach to marketplace operators — not merely the sellers — reflects the platform-enforcement model that has become characteristic of Schedule A counterfeit actions in this district.

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Default judgment

Default judgment: what the court's ruling means for both parties

Legal mechanism

Final default judgment entered on motion — no merits contest

A final default judgment is entered when defendants fail to appear or respond to a complaint. The court granted Kyjen's motion and entered judgment under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 58(a). This is not a settlement and does not reflect any agreement by the defendants — it is a court-imposed resolution based on the defendants' failure to participate. The judgment is binding and immediately enforceable.

Court-entered judgment
Patent holder outcome

Kyjen secures injunction and $200,000 in statutory damages

Kyjen obtained the full relief sought: a permanent injunction barring defendants from manufacturing, importing, selling, or advertising infringing or counterfeit Outward Hound products, and $200,000 in statutory damages under 15 U.S.C. § 1117(c). The court also ordered major marketplace platforms — including Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, Temu, and Walmart — to remove infringing listings and sequester infringing goods upon Kyjen's request.

Injunction + $200K damages
Defendant outcome

Defendants permanently enjoined across major e-commerce platforms

The Schedule A defendants, having not appeared, are permanently enjoined from selling, advertising, or distributing any product infringing the Outward Hound IP — including patents and trademarks — across all major online marketplaces. The injunction extends to associated seller accounts, domain names, and any successor entities. Marketplace operators are directed to remove listings and freeze infringing inventory on Kyjen's request.

Permanent injunction entered
Commercial implications

Default judgments enable rapid marketplace-level enforcement

This case illustrates how brand owners can use Schedule A default judgment actions to obtain court orders directing major platforms — Amazon, AliExpress, eBay, Temu, Walmart, Wish, DHgate, Etsy — to de-list infringing sellers at scale. For the pet products sector, where online counterfeiting is prevalent, this enforcement model provides a fast, platform-agnostic remedy without requiring identification of each individual seller before judgment.

Platform-level enforcement
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Parties and representation

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RoleNameTypeDetail
PlaintiffKyjen Co., LLCCompany/Search in Eureka ↗
DefendantThe Individuals, Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Partnerships, and Unincorporated Associations Identified on Schedule AIndividual/Search in Eureka ↗
Plaintiff counselValeria MunozAttorneyCounsel for Kyjen Co., LLCSearch in Eureka ↗
Plaintiff law firmBoies Schiller & Flexner, LLPLaw FirmRepresenting Kyjen Co., LLCSearch in Eureka ↗
Presiding judgeJudge Raag SinghalJudgeFlorida Southern District CourtSearch in Eureka ↗
R&D signals

R&D signals in the pet products and animal accessory IP space

Kyjen's 10-patent portfolio and aggressive Schedule A enforcement signal active IP investment in the pet products sector — here is what the innovation landscape looks like around Outward Hound's technology.

Patent portfolio

Kyjen's Outward Hound portfolio spans design and utility filings

Kyjen Co. has assembled a portfolio of at least 10 patents covering both the ornamental appearance and functional operation of its Outward Hound pet products. This breadth — from design patents filed under application series US29/ to utility patents — suggests ongoing R&D investment in differentiating both how products look and how they work. Monitoring Kyjen's filing activity can signal which product categories it is prioritising next.

Kyjen IP portfolio activity
Technology landscape

Design patent filing trends in pet accessories and outdoor pet gear

The pet accessories and outdoor pet gear market has seen increasing design patent activity as brands seek to protect distinctive product appearances against e-commerce copycats. Filing trends around pet harnesses, feeders, toys, and travel accessories suggest a competitive innovation landscape where ornamental differentiation is a key IP strategy alongside utility protection. Tracking these trends can reveal white space for new product development.

Pet accessory design filings
Defendant IP posture

Schedule A defendants rarely hold defensive IP in e-commerce counterfeit actions

The Schedule A defendants in this case did not appear or assert any defensive IP position. This is consistent with the broader pattern of counterfeit enforcement actions, where anonymous marketplace sellers typically lack registered IP rights. For legitimate pet product competitors, this signals that the primary IP risk in this space comes from established portfolio holders like Kyjen rather than from defensive cross-licensing dynamics.

No defensive IP asserted
White space opportunity

Functional pet product innovations adjacent to Outward Hound utility patents

Kyjen's two utility patents (US8316804B2 and US9756835B1) cover functional pet product innovations. R&D teams developing next-generation pet gear — such as smart feeders, ergonomic harnesses, or interactive pet toys — should analyse the claim scope of these patents to identify adjacent functional white space where novel designs may be protectable without conflicting with the Outward Hound utility claims.

Pet product utility white space
Related litigation

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Strategic implications

What this case signals for the pet products IP enforcement landscape

Kyjen's default judgment action highlights the growing use of Schedule A litigation to combat online counterfeiting across major e-commerce platforms in the pet products sector.

Schedule A actions are a fast-track enforcement tool for e-commerce brand owners

By naming anonymous marketplace sellers on Schedule A rather than by name, brand owners like Kyjen can obtain default judgments and platform-level injunctions without identifying each defendant individually at filing. IP teams monitoring counterfeit activity on Amazon, AliExpress, or Temu should consider whether this procedural model fits their enforcement strategy.

A 10-patent portfolio creates layered IP protection for pet product designs

Kyjen asserted five design patents, two utility patents, and three additional design patents alongside trademark rights — creating overlapping grounds for infringement claims. Companies in the pet products space designing new products should assess whether their portfolio similarly covers both ornamental design and functional utility to maximise enforcement options against copycat sellers.

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