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Only named defendants’ profits can be awarded in trademark suit, justices rule - SCOTUSblog

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ShareThe issue in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers is whether a federal court calculating the defendant’s profits in a trademark infringement lawsuit can include all the profits of related entities in the same corporate group. Justice Elena Kagan’s succinct opinion for a unanimous court squarely rejected the lower court’s approach, ruling that profits only of the named defendant can be awarded. Kagan noted that the statute on which the lower…

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Only named defendants’ profits can be awarded in trademark suit, justices rule - SCOTUSblog

ShareThe issue in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers is whether a federal court calculating the defendant’s profits in a trademark infringement lawsuit can include all the profits of related entities in the same corporate group. Justice Elena Kagan’s succinct opinion for a unanimous court squarely rejected the lower court’s approach, ruling that profits only of the named defendant can be awarded. Kagan noted that the statute on which the lower…

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U.S. Supreme Court excludes affiliates from Lanham Act disgorgement Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly

A trademark infringer s corporate affiliates are not bound by a court s order for the disgorgement of profits to a prevailing plaintiff pursuant to the Lanham Act where those companies were not named as defendants in the case, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a decision from the 4th Circuit. Click here to

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“Defendant’s profits are defendant’s profits,” says US Supreme Court, but dispute on affiliate liability “far from over”

A US Supreme Court decision holding that a defendant and non-party affiliates cannot be treated as a single entity in calculating infringement damages raises bigger questions than it answers.

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Massachusetts Lawyers WeeklyMassachusetts Lawyers Weekly

U.S. Supreme Court excludes affiliates from Lanham Act disgorgement

A trademark infringer s corporate affiliates are not bound by a court s order for the disgorgement of profits to a prevailing plaintiff pursuant to the Lanham Act where those companies were not named as defendants in the case, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in reversing a decision from the 4th Circuit. Click here to

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Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly broke the news in on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
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