| 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… |
| 25-188 |
JFXD TRX ACQ LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company v. trx.com, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
anticybersquatting-consumer-protection-act bad-faith-registration circuit-split domain-name-registration intellectual-property-law trademark-protection |
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) creates a cause of action against a person who in bad faith "registers, traffics in, or uses" an… |
| 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… |
| 21-417 |
Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility |
Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
| 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… |
| 19-46 |
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… |