List of United States Supreme Court trademark case law
This is an incomplete list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the area of trademark law.
| Case | Citation | Year | Vote | Classification | Subject Matter | Opinions | Statute Interpreted | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-Lanham Act Jurisprudence (effective July 6, 1947) | ||||||||
| Trade-Mark Cases | 100 U.S. 82 | 1879 | 9 - 0 | Constitutional basis for trademark regulation | Majority: Miller (unanimous) | The Copyright Clause does not give Congress the power to regulate trademarks. | ||
| Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. v. Finzer | 128 U.S. 182 | 1888 | ||||||
| Singer Mfg. Co. v. June Mfg. Co. | 163 U.S. 169 | 1896 | ||||||
| Elgin Nat’l Watch Co. v. Illinois Watch Case Co. | 179 U.S. 665 | 1901 | ||||||
| G. & C. Merriam Co. v. Syndicate Pub. Co. | 237 U.S. 618 | 1915 | ||||||
| Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf | 240 U.S. 403 | 1916 | ||||||
| United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co. | 248 U.S. 90 | Dec. 9, 1918 | ||||||
| A. Bourjois & Co. v. Katzel | 260 U.S. 689 | Jan. 29, 1923 | ||||||
| American Steel Foundries v. Robertson | 262 U.S. 209 | May 21, 1923 | ||||||
| Prestonettes, Inc. v. Coty | 264 U.S. 359 | April 7, 1924 | ||||||
| William R. Warner & Co. v. Eli Lilly & Co. | 265 U.S. 526 | 1924 | ||||||
| Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co. | 305 U.S. 111 | 1938 | Once a patent has expired, the benefits of the invention are to be enjoyed by the public. | |||||
| Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Mfg. Co. v. S.S. Kresge Co. | 316 U.S. 203 | May 4, 1942 | ||||||
| Champion Spark Plug Co. v. Sanders | 331 U.S. 125 | April 28, 1947 | ||||||
| Post-Lanham Act Jurisprudence (effective July 6, 1947) | ||||||||
| Steele v. Bulova Watch Co. | 344 U.S. 280 | 1952 | ||||||
| Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood | 369 U.S. 469 | April 30, 1962 | ||||||
| Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co. | 376 U.S. 225 | March 9, 1964 | ||||||
| Compco Corp. v. Day-Brite Lighting, Inc. | 376 U.S. 234 | March 9, 1964 | ||||||
| Fleischmann Distilling Corp. v. Maier Brewing Co. | 386 U.S. 714 | 1967 | ||||||
| United States v. Sealy, Inc. | 388 U.S. 350 | 1967 | ||||||
| Inwood Laboratories, Inc. v. Ives Laboratories, Inc. | 456 U.S. 844 | 1982 | ||||||
| Park ‘N Fly, Inc. v. Dollar Park and Fly, Inc. | 469 U.S. 189 | 1985 | ||||||
| San Francisco Arts & Athletics, Inc. v. United States Olympic Committee | 483 U.S. 522 | 1987 | Lanham Act, Amateur Sports Act of 1978 | |||||
| K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc. | 485 U.S. 176 | 1988 | ||||||
| K Mart Corp. v. Cartier, Inc. | 486 U.S. 281 | 1988 | ||||||
| Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. | 505 U.S. 763 | 1992 | trade dress | |||||
| Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., Inc. | 514 U.S. 159 | 1995 | ||||||
| College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board | 527 U.S. 666 | 1999 | ||||||
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Brothers, Inc. | 529 U.S. 205 | 2000 | trade dress | |||||
| Cooper Industries v. Leatherman Tool Group | 532 U.S. 424 | 2001 | ||||||
| TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. | 532 U.S. 23 | 2001 | trade dress | |||||
| Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. | 539 U.S. 23 | 2003 | 8 - 0 | Intersection of TM law with public domain works | Majority: Scalia (unanimous) | Lanham Act | Trademark cannot preserve copyright-like rights to a public domain work. | |
| Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue, Inc. | 537 U.S. 418 | 2003 | trademark dilution | Lanham Act, Federal Trademark Dilution Act | Plaintiff must prove actual dilution under the Federal Trademark Dilution Act. (Later overturned by Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006) | |||
| KP Permanent Makeup, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc. | 543 U.S. 111 | 2004 | ||||||
| American Needle, Inc. v. NFL | 560 U.S. 183 | 2010 | ||||||
| US. v. Alvarez | 567 U.S. ___, 132 S.Ct. 2537 | June 28, 2012 | Stolen Valor Act | |||||
| Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc. | ____ U.S. ____, 133 S.Ct. 721 | Jan. 9, 2013 | ||||||
| Lexmark Int'l v. Static Control Components | 572 U.S. ____ | March 25, 2014 | Lanham Act | |||||
| Pom Wonderful v. Coca-Cola, Inc. | 572 U.S. ____, 134 S.Ct. 2228 | June 12, 2014 | Lanham Act | |||||
| Hana Financial, Inc. v. Hana Bank | 574 U.S. ___ | Jan. 21, 2015 | 9-0 (Sotomayor), affirming. | Tacking of older uses to a new use of a trademark is a jury question. | ||||
| B&B Hardware, Inc. v. Hargis Industries, Inc. | ___ U.S. ____ | March 24, 2015 | 7-2, reversed & remanded (Alito). Ginsburg concurrence. Thomas dissent (joined by Scalia). | Lanham Act | Issue preclusion may apply to determinations by Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. | |||
References
- David S. Welkowitz, "The Supreme Court and Trademark Law in the New Millennium", 30 William Mitchell Law Review 1659 (2004)
- Derek Simpson and Lee Petherbridge, "An Empirical Study of the Use of Legal Scholarship in Supreme Court Trademark Jurisprudence", 35 Cardozo Law Review 931 (2014) (also available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2238523).
See also
- List of trademark case law
- List of United States Supreme Court copyright case law
- List of United States Supreme Court patent case law
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