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`PRL USA Holdings, Inc.
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`DANIEL I SCHLOSS
`GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP
`200 PARK AVENUE, 34TH FLOOR
`NEW YORK, NY 10166
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`Plaintiff's Notice of Reliance
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` DEPOSITION OF: BRASILIO MACHADO
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` DATE: October 18, 2017
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` TIME: 10:29 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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` Q. How many?
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` Q. Any other lawyers with you?
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` Q. Is it a busy practice?
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` Q. Well, does it have any employees?
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` A. No. The company is waiting for resolution of
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` A. An application for myself?
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` Q. Yes.
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` A. Yes, I did.
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` Q. Did that application proceed to registration?
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` Q. So how did you decide the name, to identify
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` A. I liked the name.
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` It's a catchy name.
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` Q. Are you familiar with my client, Ralph Lauren?
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` A. When, I don't remember.
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` Q. In some of the pleadings that you filed in
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. And you said that those hats were distributed
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` in order to gauge interest, is that correct?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. Where did you distribute the hats?
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` A. At games, polo matches.
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` Q. Polo matches in Wellington?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. Anywhere else?
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` A. No. I gave some to a few friends.
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` Q. I also wanted to clarify one other response
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` that we got in response to request for admission. We
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` had a request for admission that said: Applicant does
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` not currently manufacture, sell, or offer to sell
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` products under any mark?
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` And your response was: Denied.
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` So do you currently sell or manufacture or
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` offer to sell products under another mark, other than
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` Polo King?
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` A. Other than Polo King?
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` Q. Yeah.
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` A. I don't recall that.
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` Q. Do you sell products under the mark Polo King?
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` A. I manufacture products under Polo King.
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` Q. The hats that we discussed?
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` A. Correct.
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` Q. Anything else?
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` A. No.
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` Q. Did you sell and get money for any products
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` that say Polo King on them?
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` A. Not yet, we haven't gotten to that stage yet,
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` Q. Riding boots are sold differently than rain
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` boots. Would that be a correct statement?
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` A. I don't know if that's a correct statement.
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` Riding boots and rain boots, as I'm concerned, can be
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` sold in the same place. As a matter of fact, I think
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` they are sold in the same place.
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` Q. Well, in any event, your application for Polo
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` King doesn't say riding boots. It just says boots, so
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` that could encompass other types of boots, correct?
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` A. Yes.
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` Q. So it could encompass rain boots or boots that
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` have nothing to do with the sport of polo, right?
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` A. Correct.
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