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…
First Circuit affirmed denial of injunction, noting that confusion due to proximity of businesses and both trading off of the same historical legend “is not the type of confusion that trademark…
