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Trademark Act of 1905 A Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decision reversing the decision of the Commissioner of Patents is not a final judgment reviewable by the Supreme Court. A. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel: 260 U.S. 689: Jan. 29, 1923: Substantive Sale of trademark rights; Infringement Majority: Holmes: Trademark Act of 1905
Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. 505 U.S. 763 (1992) (Supreme Court applied trademark distinctiveness spectrum to trade dress, arguably giving official sanction to the merger of the requirements for trademark and trade dress, noting that inherently distinctive trade dress required no showing of secondary meaning.)
The USPTO petitioned to the Supreme Court for review, which certified the case in November 2019. [7] The oral arguments for the case on May 4, 2020, were the first ever to be held via teleconference for the Supreme Court as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the arguments, the Justices raised questions of how an Internet address ...
The website offers free case law, codes, opinion summaries, and other basic legal texts, with paid services for its attorney directory and webhosting. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2007, The New York Times reported that Justia was spending around "$10,000 a month" in order "to copy documents" from the United States Supreme Court and publish them online, to be ...
The case is the latest of several the Supreme Court has taken up recently concerning free speech rights in the trademark context. In 2017, the court struck down a prohibition on trademarks that ...
TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc., 532 U.S. 23 (2001), was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision in the field of trademark law. The case determined that a functional design could not be eligible for trademark protection, and it established a presumption that a patented design is inherently functional.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared skeptical that a California lawyer can own a federal trademark covering the phrase "Trump Too Small" over the objections of ...
The Court did not exclude all possibility of Congress regulating trademarks. Congress, however, read the decision very strictly and in a new trademark law enacted in 1881 regulated only trademarks used in commerce with foreign nations, and with the Indian tribes, areas specified under the Commerce Clause.