| 25A708 |
CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. |
Third Circuit |
2025-12-17 |
Application |
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circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising lanham-act trademark-law willful-misrepresentation |
Question not identified. |
| 25-400 |
PT Medisafe Technologies v. United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split color-trademark generic-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-protection |
Does the "generic name" requirement of the trademark statute, 15 U.S.C. § 1064(3), apply equally to all marks or is there a special rule for color tra… |
| 25-217 |
CeramTec GmbH v. CoorsTek Bioceramics LLC, fka C5 Medical Werks, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
design-functionality evidence-standard intellectual-property product-design trademark-law utility-patent |
Whether under this Court's decision in TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001), a utility patent that produces a product… |
| 25-215 |
Vetements Group AG v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
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consumer-perception descriptiveness foreign-equivalents genericness lanham-act trademark-law |
Under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., no mark shall be refused nationwide protection as a registered trademark on account of its nature unle… |
| 25-144 |
Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law |
1. Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered government developments that post date a trademark applicant's filing to support a refusal under … |
| 25-75 |
Crocs, Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd., et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
commercial-advertising intangible-properties lanham-act misrepresentation patent-status trademark-law |
Whether the Lanham Act's prohibition on "misrepresent[ations]" as to "nature, characteristics, [or] qualities" extends to misrepresentations about the… |
| 24-6901 |
Junior-Tony Dieujuste v. Jessica Sin, Judge, Family Court of New York, Queens County, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-action child-support court-proceedings judicial-immunity servicemark trademark-law |
Whether judicial immunity extends to administrative actions taken by court officials in child support proceedings involving unauthorized use of a regi… |
| 24-1016 |
RiseandShine Corporation, dba Rise Brewing v. PepsiCo, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2025-03-24 |
Pending |
CVSGResponse RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split federal-trademark intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether trademark strength is a question of fact in a likelihood-of-confusion analysis under 15 U.S.C. § 1114 |
| 24-1011 |
Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-03-21 |
Denied |
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circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law |
Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act; Whether co… |
| 23-900 |
Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
circuit-conflict civil-procedure corporate-form corporate-separateness lanham-act profits-disgorgement standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law |
Whether an award of the 'defendant's profits' under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distin… |
| 23-752 |
Y.Y.G.M. SA, dba Brandy Melville v. Redbubble, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adverse-consequences circuit-split contributory-liability contributory-trademark-infringement intellectual-property knowledge-standard legal-standard reasonable-steps specific-infringement trademark-infringement trademark-law |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred by holding that a defendant may be held liable for contributory trademark infringement only if it knows or has reason … |
| 23A517 |
Dewberry Group, Inc., f/k/a Dewberry Capital Corporation, a Georgia Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., a New York Corporation |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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corporate-separateness equity-principles lanham-act profit-disgorgement trademark-infringement trademark-law |
Whether a court may order a defendant to disgorge profits from non-party affiliated entities in a Lanham Act trademark infringement case without pierc… |
| 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 |
| 23-63 |
San Diego County Credit Union v. Citizens Equity First Credit Union |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Denied |
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15-usc-1119 cardinal-chemical circuit-split invalidity jurisdiction non-infringement patent-and-trademark-office summary-judgment trademark-cancellation trademark-disputes trademark-law |
Whether a finding of non-infringement moots a claim for trademark invalidity |
| 22-1249 |
Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-06-29 |
Denied |
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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… |
| 22-347 |
Diece-Lisa Industries, Inc. v. Disney Store USA, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-13 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
expressive-work first-amendment intellectual-property likelihood-of-confusion reverse-confusion trademark-infringement trademark-law |
Does the First Amendment provide an infringer blanket immunity for trademark infringement across all categories of goods so long as they can claim the… |
| 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… |
| 21-660 |
Freelancer International Pty Limited, et al. v. Upwork Global, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counterfeit-mark fair-use fair-use-defense irreparable-harm preliminary-injunction retroactive-statute statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-law |
Whether the courts may rewrite the trademark statute to include a fair use defense for use of an incontestable mark to describe users |
| 21-513 |
Australian Leather Pty. Ltd., et al. v. Deckers Outdoor Corporation |
Federal Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
english-speaking-countries foreign-equivalents generic-term primary-significance registration-standard trademark-cancellation trademark-law trademark-protection |
Whether a term that is generic in the English-speaking foreign country from which it originated is ineligible for trademark protection in the United S… |
| 20-1589 |
Kris Kaszuba, dba Hollywood Group v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
15-usc-1064 administrative-law appointments-clause civil-procedure constitutional-interpretation federal-circuit judicial-review lexmark principal-officers standing trademark trademark-law |
Has the Federal Circuit erred in refusing to follow this Court's Lexmark precedent, and in not applying precedent to standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 |
| 20-1309 |
Corcamore, LLC v. SFM, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
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administrative-law civil-procedure due-process lanham-act lexmark-test standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-trial-and-appeal-board |
Whether the Lexmark test is the sole determinant of the TTAB's statutory power to adjudicate a § 1064 trademark cancellation, or if the Federal Circui… |
| 19-1232 |
Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights disparagement first-amendment lanham-act matal-v-tam standing trademark trademark-law trademark-registration |
Whether disparagement can be the basis of standing to challenge a trademark under the Lanham Act after Matal v. Tam |
| 19-493 |
James J. Maksimuk v. Connor Sport Court International, LLC |
Federal Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
cafc corporate-representation court-procedure district-court due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause legal-counsel legal-representation overturning-decisions supreme-court-rulings trademark-cancellation trademark-law |
Did the CAFC, District Court, 10th Cir., TTAB orders and judgments and referenced Supreme Court rulings—that required corporations to be represented b… |
| 19-53 |
Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Federal Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board |
Whether the Federal Circuit test impermissibly categorizes 'descriptive' marks as unprotectable 'generic' marks, on the basis of the mark describing t… |
| 19-48 |
B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Denied |
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bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness |
Whether the established precedent by the Federal Circuit for the determination of fraud on the USPTO should be adopted as the proper standard for all … |
| 19-46 |
United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure generic-term generic-terms intellectual-property lanham-act online-business top-level-domain trademark trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration uspto |
Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (.com) to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark" |
| 18-1159 |
The Universal Church, Inc. v. Calvin Toellner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
archaic-religious-texts circuit-split civil-rights contemporary-public-perception free-speech generic-marks generic-term legal-standard public-perception religious-freedom religious-organizations standing technical-theological-usages theological-usages trademark trademark-law trademark-protection |
Whether religious organizations' names like The Universal Church' and 'Universal Church' can be deemed generic as a matter of law regardless of eviden… |
| 18-1037 |
Zheng Cai v. Diamond Hong, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
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administrative-review cafc cultural-symbols foreign-cultural-symbol foreign-language foreign-language-marks judicial-interpretation language-expertise standing trademark trademark-examination trademark-law ttab |
Disputed marks with foreign language and cultural symbols, lack of judges knowledgeable in foreign languages and cultures leads to erroneous trademark… |