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Great Concepts has owned Registration No. 2929764 for DANTANNA’S, in association with “steak and seafood restaurant[s]”, since March 2005. In 2006 Chutter Inc’s predecessor-in-interest,...
"If the Fifth Circuit agrees with the Ninth Circuit, it may dissuade district courts, even outside of these circuits, from perpetuating the ‘stitch-for-stitch' requirement for counterfeits."
In October of 2023, a divided panel of the Federal Circuit ruled in Great Concepts, LLC v. Chutter, Inc. that a fraudulent filing for incontestability under Section 15 of the Lanham Act is not a proper ground for the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) to cancel a registration under Section 14 of the Act.
In Vans, Inc. v. MSCHF Product Studio, Inc., the first appellate court opinion to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit considered whether to recognize heightened First Amendment protection in a sneaker design and bypass the traditional likelihood of confusion analysis for trademark infringement suits.
By Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of Mickey Mouse, will enter the public domain. The first movies in which the iconic mouse appeared – most famously, Steamboat Willie[1] – were made in 1928 and works from that year go