ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT 9th Circ. Revives Dropbox 'Smart Sync' Trademark Fight Law360 (April 20, 2021, 4:36 PM EDT) -- A split Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived a trademark lawsuit against Dropbox Inc. over a "Smart Sync" cloud storage product, drawing a rebuke from a dissenting judge who said the accuser's "sophisticated" buyers would not be confused by a similar name. By a 2-1 vote, the appeals court overturned a 2019 decision by a district judge that tossed out the lawsuit, which accused Dropbox of infringing an earlier "SmartSync" software brand sold by a firm called Ironhawk Technologies Inc. The trial judge had ruled that consumers were unlikely to confuse the two products, but the Ninth Circuit said that "highly...