Tarter Krinsky & Drogin represents client in infringement complaint related to patented scaffolding design

Manhattan, NY Tarter Krinsky & Drogin is taking legal action to enforce Urban Umbrellas’ scaffolding design in the city and rights to its unique sidewalk design.

Urban Umbrella won the urbanSHED design competition that inferred patent rights to their design. Under NYC law, Urban Umbrella owns all rights to its design in sidewalk scaffolding. Tarter Krinsky & Drogin has filed a patent and trade dress infringement complaint against a scaffolding  company for violating their client’s patent and trade dress infringement.

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin is representing Urban Umbrellas with an infringement complaint to protect their intellectual property rights and ensure that their innovative design is not copied or used without proper authorization.

The Tarter Krinsky & Drogin team, led by chair of the construction practice David Pfeffer and intellectual property partner Mark Rosenberg, state in the complaint that Urban Umbrella owns all rights in the only alternative scaffolding design permitted under New York City law.

According to the DOB (New York City Department of Buildings), variances from New York’s traditional green scaffolding are only permitted by those who have won a design competition from the DOB. urbanSHED has no such award that even remotely meets this qualification. Furthermore, Urban Umbrella’s design is the only one that has met the requirement to date.