Molly Tea: a claim over US$5 million and the limits of a trademark injunction

Molly Tea’s New York dispute involves a damages claim over US$5 million in the original complaint. The August reconsideration motion was denied. On October9, the brand’s second injunction request was denied while the earlier amended order remained in force. Brand use, operating control and monetary relief concern different requests. Final damages and collection were not verified in this review.

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Music: Cipher — Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Newly collected tea footage from the Molly Tea Indonesia brand account and teapigs official account; existing owned shop archives, third-party office references and owned training footage. Reference scenes are not identified as the disputed New York stores. Source audio is muted. Commercial reuse permission for third-party footage is unconfirmed.
Public Comply page graphics: iCook original information graphics; actual court paragraph screenshots are from the cited public judicial records. No third-party case photograph is used in the system overlay.

Sources:
https://docketnexus.com/document/479375676/
https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1%3A2026cv04051/664127/83
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1%3A2026cv04051/664127/143/
https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1%3A2026cv04051/664127/119
https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/new-york/nysdce/1%3A2026cv04051/664127/160