Untapped agrees to a permanent injunction against using the Canvas brand.
Instructure and Untapped (formerly called Canvas) have settled their lawsuit.
Instructure (NYSE: INST) sued Canvas in November, arguing that the latter company’s rebrand from Jumpstart to Canvas infringed its trademarks. Canvas made counterclaims.
The judge in the case issued a preliminary injunction in favor of Instructure and ordered Canvas to stop using the Canvas brand within 15 days. This included changing its domain name away from Canvas.com.
Canvas appealed but couldn’t get the appeals court to reverse the preliminary injunction. The company missed the court’s deadline, and the judge found it in contempt of court.
With its legal options closing, Canvas rebranded to Untapped and moved to the domain untapped.io.
Terms of the settlement weren’t disclosed, although Untapped agreed to a permanent injunction from using the Canvas brand. The notice of dismissal says both parties will bear their own expenses.
As of right now, canvas.com forwards to untapped.io.
Canvas.com was acquired on a payment plan, which added complexity to the case.
The domain name appears to be safe:
Pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 41(a)(1)(A)(ii), the parties, by and through their undersigned counsel, hereby stipulate to the dismissal of all claims and counterclaims asserted by and between them in this matter including Plaintiff/Counterclaim-Defendant
Instructure, Inc.’s Motion for Attorneys’ Fees (see D.E. 86, 97, 98, 101), with prejudice, with each
party to bear their own costs, expenses, and fees.
Dated: April 29, 2022
Case 2:21-cv-00454-DAK Document 112
Having considered the parties’ Joint Motion for a Stipulated Order Regarding Injunctive
Relief wherein the parties have stipulated to the entry of this order, and finding good cause for the
same, the COURT hereby GRANTS the Parties’ Joint Motion and
(1) IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT Canvas Technologies, Inc. now known as
Untapped Labs, Inc. (“Untapped”) is permanently enjoined from using CANVAS or confusingly
similar variations thereof as trademarks; and
(2) IT IS HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT Untapped was in substantial compliance
with the Court’s preliminary injunction order as of February 10, 2022.
SO ORDERED this 2nd day of May, 2022
Case 2:21-cv-00454-DAK Document 113
While the domain may be safe, I don’t see anything in the court’s dismissal that verifies that. They parties came to a settlement agreement, and anything could be part of that.
canvas is now redirected to Instructure