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 predominant approach in most jurisdictions to determine whether the dismissal of a derivative action based on the failure to adequately plead demand futility bars re-litigation of this issue in a ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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As previewed, Bravo and his co-defendant Martinez were indicted in separate counts for federal program bribery, conspiracy to commit that bribery, and traveling in furtherance of the bribery. (There ...

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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In Denver Homeless Out Loud v. Denver, _ F.4th _, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 12005 (10th Cir. May 3, 2022), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in a split decision, vacated a preliminary ...

The recent Supreme Court decision in B&B Hardware, Inc v Hargis Industries, Inc has a number of implications for brand owners In 2015, the US Supreme Court issued a landmark trademark decision that ...

In In re Snyder, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed an issue of first impression and joined the Third, Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh circuit courts in recognizing an exception to ...