(August 31, 2017, 11:37 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The same three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that on July 11 rejected efforts by a trademark infringement defendant to rely on the Tea Rose-Rectanus doctrine — so-named for Hanover Star Milling Co. v. Metcalf, 240 U.S. 403 (1916), (Tea Rose) and United Drug Co. v. Theodore Rectanus Co., 248 U.S. 90 (1918) — voted Aug. 30 to deny a petition to rehear the case (Stone Creek Inc. v. Omnia Italian Design Inc., No. 15-17418, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 16632)....