On May 20, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court settled the question of whether licensees under trademark agreements rejected by bankruptcy debtors may continue to use licensed marks. In a highly anticipated decision in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC, the Supreme Court ruled that…
In the coming months, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a decision in Mission Product Holdings, Inc. v. Tempnology, LLC that may (yes, we said “may”) resolve a circuit split as to whether trademark licensees can continue using trademarks after a licensor in…
We previously blogged about the licensing dispute between the building management of 200 Riverside Boulevard in New York City and DJT Holdings over whether management had the right to remove the Trump Place branding on the building. The building management succeeded in obtaining a declaratory…
Coffee addicts and meme fanatics are slightly less caffeinated and slightly less entertained after a California federal district court recently ruled that Grenade Beverage, LLC infringed the intellectual property rights of viral meme sensation Grumpy Cat, when Grenade Beverage sold ground coffee using her name and…
Trademark licensing disputes can present thorny issues at the intersection of contract and trademark law. And when the dispute involves the Trump brand for residential buildings, the adjudication of rights and obligations under a trademark license agreement can become national news. The decision in Residential…
In 2015, we wrote about the District of New Hampshire Bankruptcy Court’s decision in In re Tempnology, LLC. That decision was significant because it bucked a recent trend in bankruptcy jurisprudence to permit trademark licensees to retain their trademark rights even after debtor trademark licensors…
In December 2015, the TMCA blogged about a decision in In re Tempnology, LLC, in which the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire held that a debtor’s rejection of a licensing agreement in bankruptcy terminated the licensee’s rights to continue using the…
Can merely licensing a trademark result in strict liability for injuries resulting from a product bearing the trademark? A decision earlier this month says no. In Shukrullo Dzhunaydov v. Emerson Elec. Co., et al., No. 12-CV-2188, 2016 BL 82209 (E.D.N.Y Mar. 17, 2016), plaintiff Dzhunaydov…
A decision by the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Hampshire is the latest of a handful of cases in the past few years to weigh in on a circuit split as to whether a licensor of trademark rights can fully terminate a licensing…
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