In a previous post titled Trademark Squatting in Kazakhstan: From Russia with Love, we explored how Swedish telecom giant Ericsson successfully defended its trademarks against a Russian company's…
As of September 14, 2022, disputes concerning domain names with the ccTLD for Türkiye – “.tr” – are resolved under the TRABİS (“TR Domain Name Information System”) framework by accredited Dispute…
The Eleventh Circuit let stand an injunction barring the use of "KRANK3D" for supplements, in a case brought by the holder of a "KRANKED" mark.
An Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel upheld a…
The panel said that the district court properly analyzed the strength-of-mark factor as a question of law.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed a district court judgment that…
The plaintiff failed to show a likelihood of success on the merits of its trademark violation suit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court’s denial of a preliminary…
District court erred in dismissing infringement claims for failure to articulate trade dress with precision; unfair competition claims revived as federal claims reinstated.
The U.S. Court of Appeals…
In my previous articles—Trademark Squatting in Kazakhstan: From Russia with Love and its Part II—I reported cases where Russian companies attempted to register trademarks of well-known foreign brands…
In front of the Basic Civil Court Skopje, in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia (“The Civil Court”) in 2022 a case has been initiated between two companies in the konditorei industry, one from…
The Federal Circuit affirmed a Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB or the “Board”) decision to cancel a mark based on priority of use, despite the Appellant’s argument that an declarations to show…
