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The Northern District of California concluded last week that Constellation Brands has the exclusive right to use the TO KALON and TO KALON VINEYARD marks on wine, and that The Vineyard House, LLC (TVH) “cannot use the term in any way, shape or form.” At issue was Constellation’s claim that TVH was improperly selling wine using Constellation’s validly registered “To Kalon” mark. TVH claimed that because it grew its grapes on land owned by the original “To Kalon” wine maker, it used the phrase “To Kalon” on its label and in its marketing, not as a trademark, but instead as a vineyard designation. To determine whether TVH could appropriately use the To Kalon mark as a geographic source identifier, the court had to unwind the tangled vines covering the history of the To Kalon marks.