trade-dress
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1236 | CeramTec GmbH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC, fka C5 Medical Werks, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Presumed Complete | ceramic-components color-mark trade-dress trademark-functionality traffix-doctrine utility-patent | Whether a trademark feature derived from an expired utility patent can be deemed functional under TrafFix when the patent does not demonstrate a speci… | |
| 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… |
| 20-1817 | Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent | Whether trade dress is 'functional' if it is 'essential to the use or purpose of the article' or 'affects the cost or quality of the article,' as this… |
| 20-873 | Herman Miller, Inc. v. Blumenthal Distributing, Inc., dba Office Star | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-31 | Denied | civil-procedure household-name jury-trial standard-of-review trade-dress trademark | Whether the appellate court improperly substituted its own factual findings in place of a jury verdict | |
| 19-462 | A Top New Casting Incorporated v. Bodum USA, Incorporated | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-08 | Denied | apple-v-samsung circuit-split cost-advantage design-simplicity functionality manufacturing-cost manufacturing-costs manufacturing-process materials product-design trade-dress | Whether the Seventh Circuit departed from TrafFix in its trade dress functionality analysis | |
| 18-615 | Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress | Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design-trade-dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)? |