When an opinion opens with “the plaintiff pursued its preliminary-injunction motion with the urgency of someone out on a meandering evening stroll rather than someone in a race against time,” there isn’t much suspense about who’s going to win and why, and the court did indeed affirm the denial of preliminary injunctive relief in Wreal,…
Category: Intellectual Property
Trademark Battle SCARs Between Assault Rifle Makers
A trademark dispute between assault rifle makers turned on whether promotional activities associated with an unregistered mark having no public sales are sufficient to establish prior analogous use, and whether that mark could acquire distinctiveness through secondary meaning based at least in part on these promotional activities. FN Herstal SA v. Clyde Armory Inc., 2016…
The Turtles and Sirius XM Radio: Not So “Happy Together” as Eleventh Circuit Certifies Questions of Common Law Copyright to Supreme Court of Florida
In a June 29, 2016 opinion, the Eleventh Circuit examined the question of whether common law copyright under Florida law protects sound recordings fixed prior to February 15, 1972. The opinion in Flo & Eddie, Inc. v. Sirius XM Radio, Inc., 2016 WL 3546433 (11th Cir. June 29, 2016), written by Judge R. Lanier Anderson…