Company Seeks High Court Review Of Res Judicata Ruling Under B&B Hardware

(February 13, 2017, 12:55 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A software company in a Jan. 18 petition for writ of certiorari asks the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is bound by B&B Hardware Inc. v. Hargis Industries Inc., 135 S.Ct. 1293 (2015), “in a trademark declaratory action brought solely to relitigate the likelihood of confusion issue after the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board had already rendered a final judgment determining likelihood of confusion” (M2 Software Inc. v. M2 Technology Inc., No. 16-909, U.S. Sup.)....