Trademark case: Frida Kahlo Corp. v. Mara Cristina Teresa Romeo Pinedo, USA

A federal court finds that it has jurisdiction over the Mexico-based defendants.

A decades-long dispute over the intellectual property of a prominent Mexican painter will have to be heard in a United States forum, the federal court for the Southern District of Florida has held. The court, in dismissing a motion to dismiss by a descendant of the painter and the Mexican company she operates, found that the two defendants subjected themselves to personal jurisdiction in Florida by sending allegedly false cease-and-desist letters into the state and threatening litigation over asserted trademark and other intellectual property claims (Frida Kahlo Corp. v. Mara Cristina Teresa Romeo Pinedo, No. 24-10293 (11th Cir. Apr. 17, 2026)).

Case date: 20 April 2026
Case number: No. 24-10293
Court: United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit

A full summary of this case has been published on Kluwer IP Law