consumer-confusion
11 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-753 | Zioness Movement, Inc. v. The Lawfare Project, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act legal-standing source-identification trademark-ownership | 1. Whether, under the Lanham Act, a court or jury may find joint ownership of a trademark between competing entities—neither of which pleaded or prove… | |
| 24-953 | Lerner and Rowe PC, an Arizona Corporation v. Brown Engstrand & Shely LLC, dba Accident Law Group, an Arizona Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-05 | Denied | circuit-split consumer-confusion intellectual-property lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion trademark-infringement | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit has created conflicts with the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits … | |
| 23-194 | Trendily Furniture, LLC, et al. v. Jason Scott Collection, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | consumer-confusion intentional-copying lanham-act pass-off product-design secondary-meaning trade-dress | Whether, and to what extent, a competitor's intentional copying alone —without any intent to confuse consumers or pass off its products as plaintiff's… |
| 23-67 | Springboards to Education, Inc. v. McAllen Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | anderson-v-liberty-lobby circuit-split consumer-confusion consumer-definition fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard likelihood-of-confusion matsushita-v-zenith summary-judgment trademark-infringement | 1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-68 | Springboards to Education, Inc. v. Mission Independent School District | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion fact-intensive-inquiry legal-standard standard-of-review summary-judgment trademark trademark-law | 1. Whether the case met the standard to dismiss on summary judgment because no reasonable jury could return a verdict in favor of the non-moving party… |
| 23-15 | Springboards to Education, Inc. v. IDEA Public Schools | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review circuit-split civil-procedure consumer-confusion legal-standard legal-standards summary-judgment trademark-infringement | 1. Whether the legal reasoning used to evaluate the issue of trademark infringement was subjective, incomplete, and failed to address the record and t… |
| 22-1249 | Foremost Title & Escrow Services, LLC v. FCOA, LLC | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-29 | Denied | burden-of-proof circuit-split consumer-confusion incontestable incontestable-mark lanham-act presumption trademark trademark-law | Under 15 U.S.C. § 1065, certain trademarks are incontestable. All Circuits considering the issue, except the Eleventh, do not presume that an incontes… | |
| 22-316 | Lodestar Anstalt v. Bacardi & Company Limited, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | consumer-confusion lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion section-45 trademark-enforcement trademark-infringement unfair-competition use-in-commerce | Whether a plaintiff in a trademark enforcement action must prove that each use of its mark meets Section 45 of the Lanham Act's "use in commerce" defi… |
| 21-1264 | Larry Klayman v. Judicial Watch, Inc., et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split consumer-confusion hearsay-evidence lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion non-disparagement precedent trademark-infringement trademark-law | 1. Did the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit err by failing to apply the "appreciable number of consumers" standard to the "l… |
| 21-212 | Dires, LLC, dba Personal Touch Beds and Personal Comfort Beds, et al. v. Select Comfort Corporation, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split consumer-confusion initial-interest-confusion internet-trademark-law likelihood-of-confusion online-advertising search-engine-results search-engines trademark-infringement | Trademark infringement claims are intended to ensure consumers are not confused as to the source of goods; indeed, the consumers' best interests lie a… |
| 20-1391 | Sportswear, Inc., dba Prep Sportswear v. Savannah College of Art and Design, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split consumer-confusion federal-registration intellectual-property related-goods service-mark trademark-infringement unrelated-goods | 1. Does the scope of a federally-registered service mark extend to unrelated goods bearing that service mark? 2. Does the defendant's copying of a ma… |