A defendant whom the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida adjudicated a trademark infringer on summary judgment, and liable for attorneys’ fees as well as profits, filed an appeal from that court’s judgment on February 11, 2013. However, an order of appointment of a Special […]
Introduction On November 26, 2012, Mr. Michael Chow and other plaintiffs affiliated with the MR CHOW restaurants doing business in New York, London, Miami, and Beverly Hills (and soon in Las Vegas) filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit of a judgment […]
On September 19, 2012, California-based Fantasia Distribution, Inc. (“Fantasia”), a defendant in a trademark case, filed an appeal with the Eleventh Circuit. The court below, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, had entered judgment against Fantasia, permanently enjoining it from using the mark SURFER ON […]
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has issued its ruling in a trademark dispute between two competing manufacturers of baffle boxes — stormwater filtration devices that “remove debris, trash, oil and other pollutants from stormwater before the stormwater reaches lakes, rivers, and streams.”[1] The Court […]
Religious orders both tracing their lineage to the island of Malta, and using “Malta” in their names, are waging a trademark battle that resulted in a September 11, 2012 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit addressing the defense of trademark fraud, the multi-factor […]
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