On April 23, 2020, the Supreme Court resolved a decades-long circuit split as to whether recovery of an infringer’s profits under Section 35(a) of the Lanham Act requires showing willfulness and held that there is no strict...more
5/3/2020
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On December 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit struck down the Lanham Act's ban on registering immoral or scandalous trademarks as unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds in In re Brunetti, --- F.3d...more
12/20/2017
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