Trademarks Supreme Court Cases
WEBA business with a protectable mark or protectable trade dress can sue for infringement if consumers likely would be confused due to the use of a substantially similar mark or trade dress. Below is a selection of Supreme Court cases involving trademarks, arranged from newest to oldest. Vidal v. Elster (2024)
List of United States Supreme Court trademark case law
WEBThis is an incomplete list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of trademark law. Geographical names designating the good's place of production (as opposed to the good's producer) cannot be trademarked. Words, letters, figures, or symbols indicating only the quality of a good cannot be trademarked.
WEBNo. 22–148. Argued March 22, 2023—Decided June 8, 2023. The Lanham Act, the core federal trademark statute, defines a trade-mark by its primary function: identifying a product’s source and dis-tinguishing that source from others.
Trademark Decisions and Proceedings search tool | USPTO
WEBUse the free text search field, filter options, and sort results to easily locate trademark decisions and proceedings issued by or conducted under the authority of the Commissioner for Trademarks or the Director of the USPTO.
Trademark Cases, 100 U.S. 82 (1879) - Justia US Supreme Court …
WEBA trademark is neither an invention, a discovery, nor a writing within the meaning of the eighth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution, which confers on Congress power to secure for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. 3.
Trademark litigation 101 - Legal Blog - Thomson Reuters Law Blog
WEBNov 14, 2022 · A trademark is words, symbols, and designs defining the owner's product or service. Trademark litigation occurs when another party infringes the trademark.
Recent Trademark Developments: Four Cases Shaping the Law …
WEBSep 19, 2020 · Trademark law has seen substantial developments in 2019 and 2020, with four major cases in the United States and Europe rising to the top. The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) issued two of those...
Trademark Law Year in Review: Select Cases from 2020
WEBTrademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), First Amendment, infringement. In April 2020, the Supreme Court held that prevailing trademark owners do not have to prove willfulness to …
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Federal Trademark ...
WEBJun 25, 2024 · In Vidal v. Elster, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13, 2024, unanimously rejected a First Amendment challenge to the "names clause" of the Lanham Act. The names clause prohibits federally registering a trademark that contains a living person's name without their consent.
Trademark Case Summaries - FindLaw Caselaw
WEBAug 8, 2019 · Trademark, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property Struck down a statutory provision that prohibits the registration of immoral or scandalous trademarks. An entrepreneur who founded a new clothing line...