USA: Smith v. Entrepreneur Media, Inc, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, No. 13-17318, 5 August 2016

The federal district court in Sacramento properly determined that an individual (Scott R. Smith) lacked standing to challenge two Trademark Trial and Appeal Board decisions dismissing Smith’s petitions to cancel trademark registrations owned by Entrepreneur Media, Inc. ("EMI"), the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco has decided in a nonprecedential summary ruling (Smith v. Entrepreneur Media, Inc., August 5, 2016, per curiam).

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