The Western District of North Carolina’s CBD Industries, LLC v. Majik Medicine, LLC is yet another case revolving around the USPTO’s shaky guidance for cannabis products. Originally delegated to a magistrate judge who issued a Memorandum and Recommendation (M&R), the plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the defendant’s counterclaims and cancel the defendant’s trademark registration was denied…
UFO Magazine, Inc. v. Showtime Network, Inc. involved a plaintiff’s second attempt to convince the District of Wyoming to hold Showtime liable for infringing the trademark UFO. The work in question was UFO, Showtime’s documentary-style television series by JJ Abrams. UFO Magazine has been publishing since 1998. One of the latest ideas the magazine was…
In the recent but now famous U.S. Supreme Court case of Iancu v. Brunetti, the mark in question was, as discussed at oral argument, a homonym of the past participle of a well known profanity — “F.U.C.T.” (which was purportedly meant to be pronounced by its initials). One of the niceties of both the oral argument and…