ORDER

MATTHEW W. BRANN, District Judge.

Plaintiffs have two motions pending before this Court: (1) a Motion for Clarification, or in the Alternative, Leave to File Motion for Summary Adjudication;1 and (2) a Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction.2 Both will be denied.

The factual background for this case is detailed in this Court's April 9, 2018, Memorandum Opinion3 and Order4 on the parties' cross-motions for summary judgment. That background will not be repeated here. Instead, it is sufficient to recall that this case concerned the legality vel non of Plaintiffs' use of fuel injector model numbers that had been used by Defendants (and their corporate predecessors) for decades. At the summary judgment stage, this Court found that Plaintiffs' use of those model numbers—all of which began with the three-letter prefix "RSA"— violated Defendant's trademark rights in those marks.

The Court later denied a request by Defendants to permanently enjoin Plaintiffs from using the RSA marks, since the submitted evidence showed that Plaintiffs had switched to new model numbers. That denial was without prejudice to Defendants asking for such injunctive relief when it came time to fashion a remedy after the resolution of all remaining legal issues in the case—i.e., after a finding on damages.

Plaintiffs now seek a clarification of this Court's previous rulings or, in the alternative, a chance to submit another motion for summary judgment. As noted, Plaintiffs have ceased using Defendants' exact model numbers. Instead, Plaintiffs have replaced the three-letter prefix ("RSA") of Defendants' model numbers with a different three-letter prefix ("LFC"). For example, a fuel injector that Plaintiffs believe is similar to Defendants' "RSA-10AD1" fuel injector and which used to be labelled and sold by Plaintiffs as "RSA-10AD1," is now labelled and sold by Plaintiffs as "LFC-10AD1." Plaintiffs ask this Court to "clarify" that its previous ruling on the illegality of Plaintiffs' use of the RSA marks was simultaneously a ruling on the legality of Plaintiffs' use of the LFC marks.

Stating the matter that way, it is clear that Plaintiffs want more than a "clarification." Rather, Plaintiffs are seeking to amend their complaint to include a claim for declaratory relief vis-à-vis the legality of the LFC marks, and a summary adjudication on that claim without the benefit of discovery.

Plaintiffs argue that the LFC issue "has already been considered by this Court."5 Plaintiffs are incorrect. All three complaints filed by Plaintiffs have been focused on marks containing the RSA prefix, and contain no mention of the LFC prefix. Likewise, for Defendants' counterclaims and cross claims. In fact, Defendants' counter- and cross claims are based, in part, on the RSA prefix standing alone. All the arguments made, and evidence presented, at the summary judgment stage concerned Plaintiffs' use of marks containing the RSA prefixes. And again, some of that evidence focused on the RSA prefix standing alone.6

Plaintiffs repeatedly point to this language in this Court's summary judgment opinion, which they believe shows that the LFC issue has already been considered, and ruled upon in Plaintiffs' favor:

A plain reading of that language shows the error in Plaintiffs' argument. Plaintiffs' use of model numbers beginning with LFC is indeed a different case entirely from the case that has been litigated here for the better part of a decade.

Plaintiffs' request for "clarification," therefore, will be denied. For those same reasons—the consistent focus, throughout years of litigation, on marks containing the RSA prefix—Plaintiffs' request to submit a motion for summary judgment on the issue of the LFC marks' legality will be denied. The denial of that requested relief renders Plaintiffs' motion for injunctive relief moot7 and it will be denied as such.8

Therefore, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that: