Opinion: Alliance Defending Freedom's Erin Hawley writes that in the Supreme Court's First Choice opinion, a case she argued, ...
On Sept. 17, 2021, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals became the latest Circuit Court to limit the preclusive effect of Trademark Trial & Appeal Board (“TTAB”) decisions. In 2015, the Supreme Court, ...
The Court apparently designed its decision Tuesday in B&B Hardware v. Hargis Industries to answer as narrow a question as possible and I think most readers of this blog will come away convinced that ...
The Federal Circuit recently vacated a summary judgment ruling of invalidity, holding that the district court erred in applying preclusive effect to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s unpatentability ...
“Had this case been decided by another circuit… basic principles of issue preclusion would have allowed the PTAB’s decision to block UTC’s induced infringement claim.” – Petitioner Liquidia ...
After the Supreme Court decision in B&B Hardware, Julia Anne Matheson and Cathy Liu of Hogan Lovells examine a case considering whether a court decision can have preclusive effect on a TTAB proceeding ...
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I always get a little happy when I learn that there is a trademark matter pending before the United States Supreme Court. It’s kind of like being the geek invited to have lunch with the cool kids.