In Re R.S. Lipman Brewing Co., LLC, 2025 WL 1099603 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 14, 2025) -
Be careful when selecting a name for your product, otherwise you might find yourself cooked at the United States Patent and Trademark Office...more
Structured Asset Sales, LLC v. Sheeran, No. 18-cv-5839 (2d Cir. Nov. 1, 2024) -
On November 1, 2024, the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s entry of summary judgment that Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud (“TOL”)...more
Crocs, Inc. v. Effervescent, Inc., No. 1:06-cv-00605 (Fed. Cir. October 3, 2024) -
On October 3, 2024, the Federal Circuit held that a party may be liable for false advertising violations under Section 43(a)(1)(B) of the...more
Lontex Corp. v. Nike, Inc., 107 F.4th 139 (3d Cir. 2024) -
On July 10, 2024, the Third Circuit vacated and remanded the district court’s decision to award attorneys’ fees to plaintiff Lontex, a sports apparel brand whose...more
Warner Chappell Music v. Nealy, No. 22-1078, 601 U.S. (2024) -
On May 9, 2024, the Supreme Court held that copyright owners may obtain damages beyond the three-year statute of limitations under the Copyright Act. As this...more
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Elliott v. Cartagena, No. 22-225 (October 17, 2023, 2d Cir.) -
Nothing can stop Fat Joe, he’s all the way up…except perhaps, the Second Circuit. On October 17, the Second Circuit overruled the S.D.N.Y.’s dismissal of a...more
After first granting a request for an interim stay of an injunction entered against Evenflo Co. Inc. for selling certain car seats which were found to infringe patents owned by Wonderland Switzerland AG, the Federal Circuit...more
Courts continue to measure that fine line between reliable expert testimony and legal opinion that patent experts constantly walk on. In a recent opinion, the Eastern District of Texas denied a patentee’s motion to exclude...more
This week, the Fourth Circuit affirmed the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board’s (“TTAB”) and subsequent Eastern District of Virginia’s (“District Court”) summary judgment finding that “GRUYERE” could not be...more