ADT, LLC v. Capital Connect, Inc., 2015 WL 6549277, No. 3:15-CV-2252 (N.D. Tex. Oct. 28, 2015) ADT provides electronic security services and equipment to nearly one quarter of those American homes that are equipped with alarm systems. It sued Capital Connect, four other alarm-service sale companies, and five individual alarm-service sales persons, alleging that they sell alarm systems in unannounced door-to-door sales visits, during which the defendants “confuse the homeowners into believing that the defendants are somehow affiliated with ADT.” Capital Connect claims to use independent contractors to sell its services in 10 states. It’s a dealer for one of ADT’s rival security monitoring service companies, Monitronics International. Its sales force allegedly misled “ADT’s customers into believing that [Capital Connect] represent[s] ADT, or that ADT has exited the market, or that ADT’s installed equipment is…
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