Centurion Pro Solutions Inc. is suing Gateway Concepts and Ryan Hall, claiming Hall made false and misleading statements to discredit Centurion’s medical marijuana trimmer products.
Centurion filed a notice of civil claim in BC Supreme Court on March 31. According to the claim, both Centurion and Gateway make similar trimmer products for the same customer and distributor base. Hall, the claim says, is prevented from being a director of a limited company in B.C. and allegedly sidestepped the prevention by having a friend act as a director of the company. Hall is allegedly a 50% shareholder of Gateway and operates as a “shadow director” of the firm.
In emails sent out in January, Hall allegedly “made false and misleading statements tending to discredit the wares, services and business of Centurion Pro.”
Hall allegedly falsely claimed that Centurion’s products are cheaply built and “fall apart in a very short time.” Moreover, Hall’s law firm allegedly sent out a letter claiming Centurion’s products infringed upon pending patents to “scare customers away from buying products from Centurion Pro.”
Centurion seeks declarations that Gateway Concepts and Hall breached the Trade-marks Act and the Competition Act, disgorgement of “wrongful gains,” an accounting, and aggravated, exemplary and punitive damages for unlawful interference with economic relations and unjust enrichment.
None of the allegations has been proven in court and the defendants had not filed a response by press time.
