consumer-confusion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-753 Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. Second Circuit 2025-12-29 Pending consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act legal-standing source-identification trademark-ownership 1. Whether, under the Lanham Act, a court or jury may find joint ownership of a trademark between competing entities—neither of which pleaded or prove…
24-953 Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-03-05 Denied circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has created conflicts with the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits …
23-194 Trendily Furniture, LLC, et al. v. Jason Scott Collection, Inc. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-31 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) consumer-confusion intentional-copying lanham-act pass-off product-design secondary-meaning trade-dress Whether, and to what extent, a competitor's intentional copying alone—without any intent to confuse consumers or pass off its products as the plaintif…
23-67 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment
23-68 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District Fifth Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law whether-the-case-met-the-standard-to-dismiss-on-summary-judgment
23-15 Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools Fifth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Response Waived appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the trademark-infringement issue was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and the leg…
22-1249 Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC Eleventh Circuit 2023-06-29 Denied burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law Whether the Eleventh Circuit is correct to relieve an incontestable trademark-holder of its burden to prove that its mark is strong and likely to be c…
22-316 Lodestar Anstalt v. Bacardi & Company Limited, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-10-04 Denied Response Waived consumer-confusion lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion section-45 trademark-enforcement trademark-infringement unfair-competition use-in-commerce Whether a plaintiff in a trademark enforcement action must prove that each use of its mark meets Section 45 of the Lanham Act's 'use in commerce' defi…
21-1264 Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. District of Columbia 2022-03-18 Denied Response Waived circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law Did the US. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the 'appreciable number of consumers' standard to the 'likel…
21-212 Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement Whether courts can impose liability for a likelihood of consumer confusion in a trademark infringement action based on a consumer's initial interest i…
20-1391 Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods Does the scope of a service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark?