| 22-704 |
Katherine K. Vidal, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office v. Steve Elster |
Federal Circuit |
2023-01-27 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (8)Relisted (2) |
first-amendment free-speech government-official public-figure registration section-1052c trademark trademark-registration |
Whether the refusal to register a mark under Section 1052(c) violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment when the mark contains criticism o… |
| 21-195 |
Belmora LLC, et al. v. Bayer Consumer Care AG, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
false-advertising false-association lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-registration trademark-territoriality |
Whether the Lanham Act's zone of interests extends to the foreign owner of a foreign trademark that has not registered or used the mark in the United … |
| 20-1552 |
Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-05-07 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing |
Whether respondent has standing to cancel petitioner's trademark registration under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 despite prior agreement to allow registration |
| 20-1429 |
Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-13 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration |
Whether trademark counterfeiting requires a likelihood of confusion |
| 19-1232 |
Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
|
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 |
| 19-53 |
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" |
| 18-1309 |
Booking.com B.V. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-16 |
GVR |
Amici (4)Relisted (3) |
administrative-law american-rule attorneys-fees civil-procedure civil-procedure-costs first-amendment government-fees government-litigation patent statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration |
Does the presumption under the American Rule that 'each litigant pays his own attorneys' fees, win or lose, unless a statute or contract provides othe… |
| 18-302 |
Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti |
Federal Circuit |
2018-09-07 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (11) |
commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech government-speech immoral immoral-marks lanham-act scandalous scandalous-marks trademark trademark-registration |
Whether Section 1052(a)'s prohibition on the federal registration of immoral' or 'scandalous' marks is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause o… |