December 16, 2020
From hard seltzer to legal cannabis, from Tiffany rings to "generic.coms," the past year was loaded with important trademark rulings that you'll need to remember. Here are Law360's top 10 trademark rulings from 2020, plus 10 more that just missed the cut.
July 01, 2020
From cannabis to video games to three U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the first half of 2020 was a busy time in the world of trademark law. As we head into the back half of the year, here are the seven big trademark decisions you need to know.
May 05, 2020
A ruling last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that struck down an "inflexible precondition" for big trademark awards was just the latest in a string of high court decisions that rejected bright-line rules in intellectual property cases.
April 23, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that trademark infringers can be forced to hand over their profits to a brand owner even if they haven't violated the law willfully, rejecting such an "inflexible precondition" for the awards.
January 14, 2020
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled at oral arguments over when trademark infringers must fork over their profits to a brand owner, offering few clues as to whether they believe such violators must have acted willfully to be hit with that penalty.
January 10, 2020
The Supreme Court will jump-start 2020 this week with oral arguments about the notorious New Jersey "Bridgegate" traffic scandal and more esoteric legal subjects like claim preclusion and pleading standards. Here's what to expect.
January 01, 2020
Trademark law is entering the new decade hot. From big Supreme Court cases over damages and generics to a long-running battle between Tiffany and Costco, here are the big trademark cases you need to watch in 2020.
December 06, 2019
A group of intellectual property professors are backing Fossil's bid for the U.S. Supreme Court to limit when to award profits in trademark cases, saying federal trademark law requires that profits be awarded only after willful violation of the law is proven first.
December 03, 2019
Fossil Inc. is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to tightly limit when trademark infringers must fork over their profits to a brand owner, saying such a "windfall" should only be awarded when the law has been violated willfully.
September 20, 2019
The American Bar Association has weighed in on a circuit-splitting issue over when to award profits in trademark cases, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that federal trademark law does not require that willfulness be proven to make infringers hand over their profits.