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UK Supreme Court Holds Post-Sale Confusion is Relevant for Establishing Trade Mark Infringement

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The Court ruled that the post-sale context can be relevant when establishing similarity between trade marks....more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Courts and Brand Owners Struggling With SCOTUS Decision Limiting Ability to Police Against Foreign Trademark Infringement

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s end-of-term decision in Abitron v. Hetronic seems to have created more questions than answers about U.S. brand owners’ ability to leverage the federal Lanham Act in global trademark disputes. In the...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

U.S. Businesses Need Foreign Trademark Registrations in the Wake of Abitron

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U.S. businesses selling abroad cannot enforce domestic trademarks against foreign entities selling infringing goods into the United States through strawmen, according to a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in...more

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Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument over Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Trademark Law

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On March 21, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc. over whether the infringement provisions of the United States Trademark Act impose liability for...more

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