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Rival Information Security Companies Fight Over Use of Similar Brand Names and Logos

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Red Siege, LLC v. Red Sentry, LLC, Civil Action No. 1:22-cv-04661-LMM (N.D. Ga., Nov. 22, 2022)

Competing information security companies dispute the right to use the name Red Siege and Red Sentry for computer security consultancies. Red Siege, LLC, claims to have been continuously and exclusively using its registered mark in connection with computer consultancy services since at least 2017. The mark is used in commerce on its website, at security trade shows, and conferences. Red Sentry, LLC, has been using the allegedly infringing mark since 2021, when the company changed its name from “Offensive AI Holdings, LLC” to its current name.

According to the complaint, Red Sentry is a direct competitor purporting to sell identical services and causing confusion in the market. The complaint sites at least one third party who asserted at a trade convention that he believed the two companies were affiliated. Red Siege further contends that the Defendant was aware of the pre-existing mark yet purposefully assumed the name to compete, confuse, and trade off the goodwill and success of the original name-holder. As such, Red Siege alleges willful infringement and seeks damages, injunctive relief, and attorneys’ fees and costs.

While Red Siege and Red Sentry battle to use their brand names, domain names, and logos, one wonders whether Red Hat, Inc., which registered its mark in 2000 for similar fields, may decide to enter the fray.

Update: On November 30, Judge May denied Plaintiff Red Siege’s motion for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO), giving the Defendant Red Sentry an opportunity to appear and be heard on the merits of the case. A hearing for the Preliminary Injunction is set for December 19.

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AtScale names John Langton as VP of worldwide engineering

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AtScale has appointed John Langton as the company’s new vice president of worldwide engineering. In this role, John will run global engineering and R&D for AtScale, managing teams in the Bay Area, Boston, Sofia (Bulgaria) and in remote locations.

This position is an expansion of his role at AtScale, having joined earlier this year to lead the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) engineering initiatives. John brings over 20 years of experience with applied AI technologies and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) development to AtScale.

“I have known John for years and have invested in the company he founded and led through growth and acquisition,” said Chris Lynch, CEO of AtScale.

“His impact and leadership were immediately felt when he joined the AtScale team to lead AI/ML engineering earlier this year. I am extremely excited he has taken on this broader role, as we continue to redefine the modern notion of a semantic layer for data and analytics.”, Lynch continued.

Prior to joining AtScale, John was the CTO at Linus Health, a healthcare-focused SaaS company, where he drove the technology strategy behind the company’s next generation cognitive health solutions. He served in various AI/ML leadership roles at Wolters Kluwer, where he created the first healthcare AI team, and at athenahealth.

Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of VisiTrend, a developer of interactive visual and security analytics that worked closely with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) until its acquisition by Carbon Black. John began his career at Charles River Analytics and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Brandeis.

“AtScale is transforming the way organizations leverage their data assets,” added Langton.

“Since joining earlier this year, I have come to appreciate the founding vision of creating a new technology category around the concept of a semantic layer. I am beyond excited to be part of the next chapter of AtScale.”, Langton continued.

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Column: Thinking more about names and character

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So, if, as I wrote last week, our oldest daughter’s name should have been “Grace,” there is no question that our second child should be named “Crash.” As in, “Crash Test.”

It’s hard to tell that now, actually. See, as she grew up, she became much better aware of her surroundings, so crashing into stuff became a much less frequent occurrence.

And, for the record, yes — she totally got that from my side of the family.

Even as she grew older, though, there was a still a wonderful, bold, forward quality to how she approached life. Like, when she made a mistake, there was a Cassie-shaped hole in the wall, not unlike Wile E. Coyote. The beauty part was that she didn’t make many mistakes, and that boldness made her an outstanding student leader, and, I believe, will make her a really good teacher.

Boldness is an increasingly rare quality, I think. Well, except for online. Online everybody has the boldness of two tequilas, because the anonymity of the ether makes it possible to believe you’re safe. That’s not really true, of course, as old posts and picts and twits have started to cost people opportunities in the present. But, still, people say things online that they would never say in person.

Which seems like a real indictment of the cowardice of the age.

We’re so used to the creature comforts of the modern era that we’ve forgotten what it is to act. We think, we plan, we have committee meetings, we fall back on platitudes and, when things don’t go how we hoped, we comfort ourselves with our good intentions and give bonus points for trying. We even actively discourage the sort of activities that breed boldness, dismissing as “dangerous” and “toxic” those —admittedly, sometimes foolish — acts that foster decisiveness and courage under fire. And then we sit on our high horses and condemn (after the fact, of course) those who have the courage to act when they, sometimes, get it wrong.

But any cursory glance at the front page of a newspaper tells you that we’re coming up on a time when boldness will be required, when the mentality to act in the face of the encroaching darkness will be necessary.

That is why I have always taken a sort of perverse…

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