Addressing whether a district court properly dismissed a Lanham Act case as a sanction for failure to timely file an amended complaint, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concluded that the dismissal sanction was...more
3/7/2019
/ Abuse of Discretion ,
Amended Complaints ,
Appeals ,
Dismissals ,
Failure To State A Claim ,
Federal Rule 12(b)(6) ,
Lanham Act ,
Likelihood of Confusion ,
Nominative Fair Use Doctrine ,
Remand ,
Trademark Litigation ,
Trademarks
Addressing whether the district court correctly found a likelihood of confusion as a matter of law between two “identical” logos arranged around a stylized bird, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the...more