ARE Trademark Law Alert: Supreme Court Announces Two-Part Test in its Abitron v. Hetronic Decision on Extraterritorial Reach of the Lanham Act
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Abitron Austria GmbH v. Hetronic International, Inc., No. 21-1023, 600 U.S. ___ (2023), addressing the Lanham Act’s extraterritorial reach. The Supreme Court held that trademark infringement cases “only extend to claims where the claimed infringing use in commerce is domestic.” Id. at 1. […]
ARE Design Patent Alert: The Full Federal Circuit is Considering Obviousness of Design Patents
On June 30, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit agreed to take on the following question: Whether the current test for proving obviousness for a design patent has been overruled by US Supreme Court precedent. LKQ Corp. v. GM Global Tech., 21-2348 (Fed. Cir. 2023) In 1982, In re Rosen […]