lanham-act
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-964 | TNSG Health Co., Ltd., et al. v. Murray Colin Clarke, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | circuit-split intellectual-property lanham-act trademark-infringement trademark-registration used-in-commerce | Under the Lanham Act, any "trademark used in commerce" may be registered. 15 U.S.C. § 1051. That "used in commerce" standard is more lenient than the … | |
| 25-959 | CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2026-02-11 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | advertising-campaign circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising jury-inference lanham-act | Whether a jury hearing a false advertising case under the Lanham Act should be barred from inferring consumer deception and reliance upon finding that… |
| 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… | |
| 25-736 | World Champ Tech, LLC v. Peloton Interactive, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split factor-test lanham-act likely-confusion summary-judgment trademark-infringement | The Lanham Act prohibits use of a trademark when such use is "likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive." 15 U.S.C, §1114(1)(a); s… |
| 25A708 | CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. | Third Circuit | 2025-12-17 | Application | circuit-split consumer-deception false-advertising lanham-act trademark-law willful-misrepresentation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-215 | Vetements Group AG v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-21 | Denied | consumer-perception descriptiveness foreign-equivalents genericness lanham-act trademark-law | Under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1051 et seq., no mark shall be refused nationwide protection as a registered trademark on account of its nature unle… | |
| 25A157 | Rebecca Curtin v. United Trademark Holdings, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Presumed Complete | administrative-proceeding lanham-act proximate-causation statutory-standing trademark-opposition zone-of-interests | Question not identified. | |
| 25-144 | Thomas D. Foster, APC v. Coke Morgan Stewart, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure constitutional-vagueness lanham-act statutory-interpretation trademark-application trademark-law | 1. Whether the Federal Circuit improperly considered government developments that post date a trademark applicant's filing to support a refusal under … |
| 25-75 | Crocs, Inc. v. Double Diamond Distribution, Ltd., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2025-07-22 | Denied | Amici (1) | commercial-advertising intangible-properties lanham-act misrepresentation patent-status trademark-law | Whether the Lanham Act's prohibition on "misrepresent[ations]" as to "nature, characteristics, [or] qualities" extends to misrepresentations about the… |
| 25-18 | Cirrus Design Corporation v. Great Western Air, LLC, dba Cirrus Aviation Services, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | circuit-split jury-trial lanham-act monetary-relief seventh-amendment trademark-infringement | Whether, as this Court held in Dairy Queen, the Seventh Amendment jury-trial right applies in trademark-infringement actions seeking monetary relief i… |
| 24-1011 | Jem Accessories, Inc., dba Xtreme Cables, a New Jersey Corporation v. Harman International Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-21 | Denied | circuit-split intellectual-property laches lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-law | Whether courts may borrow state statutes of limitations to create presumptions of laches in federal trademark actions under the Lanham Act. Whether c… | |
| 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 … | |
| 24A654 | Carl Ellen Puckett, Jr., et ux. v. Ain Jeem, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-02 | Presumed Complete | due-process first-amendment jurisdiction lanham-act pro-se trademark-seizure | Question not identified. | |
| 24-637 | T-Mobile US, Inc., fka T-Mobile USA, Inc., et al. v. Simply Wireless Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | common-law-mark continuous-use lanham-act section-1127 trademark-infringement trademark-rights | Whether the "use" that creates a common law trademark right under Section 45 of the Lanham Act, 35 U.S.C. § 1127 (2006), must be continuous—at least u… |
| 23-1252 | Bill Gaede, et ux. v. Michael Delay, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-30 | Denied | copyright-act copyright-infringement false-designation false-designation-of-origin intellectual-property lanham-act origin-clause scientific-priority usurpation | Whether usurpation of scientific priority constitutes a violation under either the 'false designation of origin' clause of the Lanham Act or the copyr… | |
| 23-900 | Dewberry Group, Inc., fka Dewberry Capital Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-conflict civil-procedure corporate-form corporate-separateness lanham-act profits-disgorgement standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law | Whether an award of the "defendant's profits" under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), can include an order for the defendant to disgorge the distin… |
| 23-681 | Diamond J. Wholesale, LLC, dba Gabsons Novelties v. Top Tobacco, L.P., et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure corporate-liability individual-liability knowing-violation lanham-act mark-misuse statutory-interpretation threshold-of-significance trademark-infringement | The Lanham Act sets up a two-tiered penalty regime for cases involving counterfeit marks depending on whether the use of those marks was knowing. Whil… |
| 23A517 | Dewberry Group, Inc., f/k/a Dewberry Capital Corporation, a Georgia Corporation v. Dewberry Engineers Inc., a New York Corporation | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-07 | Presumed Complete | corporate-separateness equity-principles lanham-act profit-disgorgement trademark-infringement trademark-law | 1. This case presents an important and recurring question concerning the remedies available for federal trademark-law claims under the Lanham Act, 15 … | |
| 23-228 | Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. | California | 2023-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | advertising brand-logos celebrity-persona celebrity-rights commercial-speech commercial-use lanham-act motion-picture trademark-infringement | Does the Lanham Act properly prohibit the unauthorized use of a celebrity's persona advertising third party brands with logos in a commercial motion p… |
| 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… |
| 23A46 | Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. | California | 2023-07-18 | Presumed Complete | anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 22-198 | Ayse Sen v. Amazon.com, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure commercial-exploitation due-process exclusion-right exclusive-use lanham-act property-rights trademark-rights | 1) Under the US Constitutional property rights and Lanham Act provisions to "exclusive use", does Amazon.com, Inc or any other third parties have the … |
| 22-148 | Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Judgment Issued | Amici (30) | brand-recognition commercial-speech commercial-use dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment lanham-act noncommercial-use trademark-infringement | 1. Whether humorous use of another's trademark as one's own on a commercial product is subject to the Lanham Act's traditional likelihood-of-confusion… |
| 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… |
| 21-1043 | Abitron Austria GmbH, et al. v. Hetronic International, Inc. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Judgment Issued | CVSGAmici (14)Relisted (3) | civil-procedure extraterritorial-application extraterritoriality foreign-sales lanham-act territorial-rights trademark trademark-infringement u.s.-commerce us-commerce | Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the Lanham Act extraterritorially to petitioners' foreign sales, including purely foreign sales that ne… |
| 21-417 | Sulzer Mixpac AG v. A&N Trading Company, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | circuit-split functionality intellectual-property lanham-act legal-interpretation product-features product-functionality trademark-protection utility | Whether any degree of utility categorically renders a product feature functional and thus ineligible for federal trademark protection under the Lanham… |
| 21-415 | Carmen Electra, et al. v. 59 Murray Enterprises, Inc., dba New York Dolls Gentlemen's Club, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | celebrity commercial-identity commercial-interest false-advertising identity-misuse image-rights lanham-act legal-standing public-prominence trademark-misuse | Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)(1), creates a civil action in favor of "any person who believes he or she is likely to be damaged… | |
| 21-247 | Coalition for Better Government, et al. v. Alliance for Good Government | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-fees chilling-effect commercial-speech fee-shifting first-amendment lanham-act non-commercial-speech political-speech | 1. Should this Court permit the Lanham Act to be extended to non-commercial political speech? 2. Should this Court permit the imposition of a sanctio… |
| 21-195 | Belmora LLC, et al. v. Bayer Consumer Care AG, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Amici (1) | false-advertising false-association lanham-act statute-of-limitations trademark-registration trademark-territoriality | 1. Whether, in view of the principle of trademark territoriality, the zone of interests encompassed by Lanham Act §§ 43(a) and 14(3) extends to the fo… |
| 20-1817 | Ezaki Glico Kabushiki Kaisha, et al. v. Lotte International America Corp., et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-06-29 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (3) | alternative-designs circuit-split design-protection functionality lanham-act product-configuration summary-judgment trade-dress utility-patent | The Lanham Act protects trade dress from unlawful copying. Trade dress includes a product's design, such as the red wax seal on a bottle of Maker's Ma… |
| 20-1637 | Janice Dickinson v. Ryan Seacrest Productions, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice defamation first-amendment lanham-act new-york-times-v-sullivan public-figure rogers-test rogers-v-grimaldi | Whether a defendant who willfully creates a false narrative about a public figure that is marketed to the public as a true story, for the intentional … |
| 20-1588 | Michael Konowicz, aka Michael Phillips, et al. v. Jonathan P. Carr, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-05-17 | Denied | actual-malice commercial-speech constitutional-interpretation defamation first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech lanham-act | 1. Whether the Court should revisit the fifty-year old "actual malice" doctrine of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny to determine if the … | |
| 20-1552 | Naked TM, LLC v. Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty. Ltd. | Federal Circuit | 2021-05-07 | Denied | circuit-split federal-circuit judicial-precedent lanham-act lexmark standing statutory-cause-of-action statutory-interpretation trademark trademark-registration trademark-standing | 1. A majority of a Federal Circuit panel ruled that respondent has standing under 15 U.S.C. § 1064 to cancel petitioner's trademark registration even … | |
| 20-1429 | Arcona, Inc. v. Farmacy Beauty, LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-13 | Denied | circuit-split lanham-act likelihood-of-confusion registered-mark statutory-interpretation trademark-counterfeiting trademark-registration | The Lanham Act defines "counterfeit" as "a spurious mark which is identical with, or substantially indistinguishable from, a registered mark." (15 U.S… | |
| 20-1309 | Corcamore, LLC v. SFM, LLC | Federal Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | administrative-law civil-procedure due-process lanham-act lexmark-test standing statutory-interpretation trademark-law trademark-trial-and-appeal-board | 1st Question. Whether this Court's Lexmark test is the sole determinant of the statutory power of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board to adjudicat… | |
| 20-421 | Progressive Lawn Managers, Inc. v. Lawn Managers, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | divorce-orders lanham-act mark-abandonment naked-licensing parallel-state-court-proceedings state-court-proceedings trademark-infringement unclean-hands | 1. Whether in a trademark infringement case in which it is necessary for the federal court to construe state-court divorce orders governing the rights… |
| 20-365 | Jack Daniel's Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Amici (7) | commercial-speech dilution-by-tarnishment first-amendment humor-defense lanham-act parody trademark-dilution trademark-infringement | 1. Whether a commercial product using humor is subject to the same likelihood-of-confusion analysis applicable to other products under the Lanham Act,… |
| 20-220 | VBS Distribution, Inc., et al. v. Nutrivita Laboratories, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Amici (4)Response Waived | actual-injury article-three circuit-split civil-rights due-process false-advertising lanham-act standing uniform-application | 1. Whether a plaintiff in a false-advertising case must demonstrate "actual injury" to state a claim under the Lanham Act. 2. Whether the Ninth Circu… |
| 19-1232 | Todd C. Bank v. Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, Inc. | Federal Circuit | 2020-04-20 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights disparagement first-amendment lanham-act matal-v-tam standing trademark trademark-law trademark-registration | 1. In Matal v. Tam , 137 S. Ct. 1744 (2017), this Court held that the disparagement clause of Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), whi… | |
| 19-310 | Kroma Makeup EU, LLC v. Kimberly Kardashian, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-split false-association lanham-act lexmark-international lexmark-test reasonable-interest rights-in-the-name standing standing-doctrine trademark-infringement | Whether the proper analytical framework for determining standing to pursue trademark infringement (i.e., false association) claims under § 43(a) of … |
| 19-152 | Amarin Pharma, Inc., et al. v. International Trade Commission, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | false-advertising federal-circuit food-drug-cosmetic-act international-trade-commission lanham-act pom-wonderful-v-coca-cola tariff-act tariff-act-1930 trade-practices unfair-competition unfair-trade-practices | When a manufacturer files a Lanham Act claim under the Tariff Act for competitive injuries caused by unfair trade practices, is the claim barred as a … | |
| 19-53 | Branded LLC v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office | Federal Circuit | 2019-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | descriptive-marks federal-circuit generic-marks lanham-act principal-register trademark-descriptive trademark-descriptiveness trademark-distinctiveness trademark-generic trademark-genericness trademark-infringement trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration trademark-trial-and-appeal-board | I. Whether the Federal Circuit test impermissibly categorizes "descriptive" marks as unprotectable "generic" marks, on the basis of the mark describin… |
| 19-46 | United States Patent and Trademark Office, et al. v. Booking.com B.V. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15)Relisted (2) | civil-procedure generic-term generic-terms intellectual-property lanham-act online-business top-level-domain trademark trademark-law trademark-protection trademark-registration uspto | Whether the addition by an online business of a generic top-level domain (".com") to an otherwise generic term can create a protectable trademark. |
| 19-48 | B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-08 | Denied | bose disgorgement federal-circuit fraud fraud-standard lanham-act lanham-act-fraud patent rule-59-motion standard-of-review therasense trademark trademark-law uspto willfulness | Under Section 14(3) of the Lanham Act an allegation of fraud on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) can arise in multiple contexts. A fraudul… | |
| 18-1233 | Romag Fasteners, Inc. v. Fossil Group, Inc., fka Fossil, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2019-03-22 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (2) | circuit-split civil-procedure intellectual-property lanham-act profits profits-award remedies statutory-interpretation trademark-infringement willful-infringement willfulness | Whether, under section 35 of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1117(a), willful infringement is a prerequisite for an award of an infringer's profits for a … |
| 18-615 | Bruce Munro, et al. v. Lucy Activewear Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-11-13 | Denied | circuit-split civil-procedure copyright copyright-law intellectual-property lanham-act physical-products preemption product-design standing trade-dress | Does copyright preclude Lanham Act product design trade dress claims for physical products, and if so, under what circumstance(s)? | |
| 18-302 | Andrei Iancu, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, Patent and Trademark Office v. Erik Brunetti | Federal Circuit | 2018-09-07 | Judgment Issued | Amici (11) | commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech government-speech immoral immoral-marks lanham-act scandalous scandalous-marks trademark trademark-registration | Whether Section 1052(a)'s prohibition on the federal registration of "immoral" or "scandalous" marks is facially invalid under the Free Speech Clause … |
| 18-47 | Thomas McClary, et al. v. Commodores Entertainment Corp. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | extraterritorial-conduct extraterritorial-jurisdiction international-commerce jurisdiction lanham-act steele-v-bulova substantial-effect trademark-enforcement trademark-standing us-commerce | 1. What defines the "substantial effect on United States commerce", that grants U.S. court's jurisdiction to expand the Lanham Act to extraterritorial… |