United States Federal Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff's challenge to defendant's registrations of a stitching design for use on a wide range of clothing, at the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) on the ground that the result of a district-court litigation between the parties barred the challenges in the PTO based on issue preclusion, is reversed and remanded, where, because the registrations at issue in the PTO cover a much broader range of uses of defendant's mark than were the subject of the district-court litigation, the results of the district-court case do not preclude plaintiff's challenges in the PTO.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/18/2013
• Published 06/18/2013

Judges

• TARANTO

Court

• United States Federal Circuit

Counsel