The Federal Circuit holds that a fraudulent Section 15 incontestability declaration cannot, by itself, justify cancellation of a trademark registration under Section 14.
The Federal Circuit held that the Cuban embargo did not strip a Cuban tobacco entity of its statutory cause of action to cancel General Cigar's COHIBA registrations.
The Federal Circuit's golf-mark decision supplies the canonical two-part test for cancellation standing and shows how one DuPont factor can decide a likelihood-of-confusion case.
The Federal Circuit reset the bar for fraud on the Trademark Office, holding that a registration falls only on clear and convincing proof of a subjective intent to deceive.
