United States Federal Circuit

In a cancellation proceeding involving parties engaged in business related to self-locking fasteners using nylon locking elements, summary judgment for appellee is affirmed where, because appellant's claim of trademark invalidity in its petition to cancel a mark's registration amounted to a collateral attack on a judgment in an earlier infringement suit, the rules of defendant preclusion were properly applied to bar appellant from asserting that claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/14/2008
• Published 04/14/2008

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• United States Federal Circuit

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