July 01, 2020
From cannabis to video games to three U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the first half of 2020 was a busy time in the world of trademark law. As we head into the back half of the year, here are the seven big trademark decisions you need to know.
May 15, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling this week in favor of Lucky Brand in a long-running trademark battle was hardly earth-shattering, but it avoided a messy new approach to preclusion that would have been particularly annoying for trademark litigants.
May 14, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday on a two-decade-old trademark dispute involving jean maker Lucky Brand, overturning a novel ruling by a lower appeals court on so-called defense preclusion that the company had called "absurd."
January 13, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday about a novel ruling by the Second Circuit that applied the doctrine of res judicata in a trademark case over dueling "Lucky" brands, including Justice Stephen Breyer, who said he did not "know where they got it from."
January 10, 2020
The Supreme Court will jump-start 2020 this week with oral arguments about the notorious New Jersey "Bridgegate" traffic scandal and more esoteric legal subjects like claim preclusion and pleading standards. Here's what to expect.
November 14, 2019
A company that has long accused Lucky Brand of infringing its trademarks is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the jean maker can't assert a new defense in the decadeslong dispute after failing to raise it in an earlier lawsuit over the same allegations.
September 12, 2019
Lucky Brand is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse what it called an "absurd" decision barring the jean maker from asserting a new defense in a decadeslong trademark dispute because it "could have" raised it over the previous years of litigation but chose not to.
June 28, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a nearly two-decade-old trademark dispute involving jean maker Lucky Brand, giving the court a chance to weigh in on complex questions of preclusion.