(January 10, 2018, 12:50 PM EST) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 9 found that when Thomas McClary departed the Grammy Award-winning band The Commodores in 1984, he forfeited his common-law rights to use and profit from “The Commodores” trademark (Commodores Entertainment Corporation v. Thomas McClary, et al., No. 16-15794, 11th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 518)....