NIKE no longer had a legally cognizable interest in the validity of the preliminary injunction.
NIKE, Inc., was precluded from appealing a district court’s preliminary injunction issued in November…
Genuine issues of material fact existed regarding whether the plaintiff’s electronic system for managing brokerage accounts contained protectable trade secrets.
Trade secrets misappropriation claims…
The applied-for mark NORTH 61 was properly refused because it produced a similar commercial impression to the mark 66° NORTH when both were used for apparel and retail services.
The proposed mark…
The record, however, supported that "Bayside Breeze" mark was not infringed by "Boardwalk Breeze" as a matter of law.
In a trademark infringement suit between competing sellers of automotive air…
The TTAB did not abuse its discretion by canceling the registration for HOLLYWOOD BEER as a sanction for repeated and willful failure to comply with the Board’s discovery orders in a cancellation…
A manufacturer of chemically strengthened glass sold under the IONEX mark failed to show that Apple’s use of the term Ion-X to describe the glass on the Apple Watch was infringing.
A manufacturer of…
Japanese confectionary company’s Pocky cookie stick’s shape was useful and not entitled to trade-dress protection.
A functional design that is useful, even if it is not an essential feature of a…
Costco raised triable issues of fact as to its liability for infringement and counterfeiting and whether its use of "Tiffany" to describe a ring style was fair use.
The federal district court in…
A permanent injunction preventing an ex-band member from touring as "The Commodores featuring Thomas McClary" extended extrajudicially to European performances.
In a long-running dispute in which…
The existence of a contractual relationship between the two parties was not a prerequisite to the power of the district court to adjudicate the breach of contract claim.
Whether the assignment of a…
