Cabot Oil’s Trademark Dispute with Water Treatment Firm Gets Change of Venue

HOUSTON — Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.’s Lanham Act dispute with a water treatment firm it says falsely claimed Cabot’s endorsement has been transferred after a federal judge found no basis for venue in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., No. H-12-0665 (S.D. Texas).

Judge Nancy F. Atlas granted the motion by defendant Water Cleaning Services LLC to move the case to the Western District of Texas, the defendant’s home district, June 12, saying that Cabot failed to identify any individual from the Southern District who was actually misled by the …